Four Way Books, 2013 Paper: 978-1-935536-31-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3562.E16I93 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
It's been said about Lea that “this extraordinary poet finds an elegance and beauty that can be glimpsed throughout his often harsh landscape.” This new collection evidences that skill. Here the natural world coexists with the poet’s boundless intellect. Lea’s keen narrative eye keeps us fully in the present as he reminisces on the past—which Lea unravels, chisels away at in search of a deeper understanding—so vivid it could be our own.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Vermont Poet Laureate SYDNEY LEA’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Vermont College, among others.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Metaphor • Peaceable Kingdom • House of Women • Dead Farms • You Listen to Dexter Gordon • Farmall Cub Tractor • The Vanishing • You of the Mottoes • Blind, Dumb • Art • Winter Poet • Abattoir Time • Ars Vitae • Teacher at Cloudland Falls • Small Jeremiad • The Gray Museum • Hum and Click • Father’s Blues • Bald Sentiment • The Turning • The Picture • To a Young Father • Impossibilities: Wild Landscape With Children • Fathomless • Plain Fact • Thaw • Idiot Moon • Too Early for Grackles • Not Like Silvio • Unnaming • I Was Thinking of Beauty • Sober • Mahayana in Vermont