Not Hearing the Wood Thrush: Poems

✍ Scribed by Margaret Gibson

• Book ID: 110698886
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 48 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780807168226

✦ Synopsis

"I look about and find whatever I see / unfinished," Margaret Gibson writes in these powerful and moving poems, which investigate a late-life genesis. Not Hearing the Wood Thrush grapples with the existential questions that come after experiencing a great personal loss. A number of poems meditate on loneliness and fear; others speak to "No one"--a name richer than prayer or vow." In this transformative new collection, Gibson moves inward, taking surprising, mercurial turns of the imagination, guided by an original and probative intelligence. With a clear eye and an open heart, Gibson writes, "How stark it is to be alive"--and also how glorious, how curious, how intimate.****