R. H. Peake

Birds and Other Beasts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is tremendous variety in form, theme, and tone in the poems in this volume. Many of the poems may strike the reader as corroboration of Thoreau's view of wildness and wilderness because Peake's love of wild things forms his poetic center, but this book also includes intense love poems as well as celebrations of birds and trees and lightning bugs. Though Peake celebrates nature, he does not view it with sentimentality. He faces without tears a world in which one creature preys upon another for survival, and he looks without fear to the "revelry of the grave" when his form becomes food for worms and feeds the laurel bushes growing over him. According to critic John Lang, Peake's poems reveal "a poet whose ear is attuned to the music of words" His poems abound "in beautiful lines and images: 'The black-necked waders cry in their wet fields, ' for example, and 'skies the white-faced ibis soars.' Such lines embody in Fred Chappell's phrase, 'the eye's joy.'" Like Peake's descriptions of finding a rare green kingfisher, for readers of his poems, "Delight follows discovery."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Authors' Tranquility Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9781958554326
• ISBN-10: 1958554324
• Artikelnr.: 65018228

Autorenporträt

Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, Peake has lived and taught in the coalfields of Southwest Virginiafor over forty years. He lived through the coal boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s and worked for sensible reclamation laws. He experienced phone calls at early hours in the morning with deep breathing and curses, but he sympathized with mountain people's desire to gain some wealth from their coal, wealth that in earlier years went to Philadelphia, New York, and England. An amateur ornithologist, he has published Birds of the Virginia Cumberlands, several collections of poetry, and an academic satire, Jack, Be Nimble.