Lori Howe

Cloudshade

Poems of the High Plains

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Produktbeschreibung

In every season, life on America's high plains is at once harsh and beautiful, liberating and isolated, welcoming and unforgiving. The poems of Cloudshade take us through those seasons, swinging wide a glassless window to life in the West--to antelope flowing seamless over dirt roads, boom and bust ghost towns, deep, glacial lakes ringed with glowing aspen trees, ice fishing by the Northern Lights, and as in "High Plains Solstice," live music on summer nights that carves hot petals through our bodies in its ritual of tides and light; licks us open from the inside until we are night-blooming jasmine seduced by the moon. Cloudshade is a book for everyone, from poetry lovers to those who don't usually read poems. If you've ever waited through five or six months of winter for the first signs of spring, stood outside to feel the first, long-awaited summer rains, caught the wood-smoke and cottonwood scent of fall, or stood on a frozen lake, listening to winter rumbling and heaving through the ice, these poems will carry you back to what is elemental and haunting about life on the high plains, as in "On the Ice," where We wait, silent, hearing with our feet the seething of ultramarine blood, the twitching of bones, rumbles of omens and restless spirits. The ice stretches and heaves, cracking like gunshot, and beneath that, glints and gleamings of sound, like whales calling across the darkness. In the poetic tradition of James Wright and B.H. Fairchild, these poems are rooted in the mercies of daily life, illuminating the intersections between our own internal landscapes and those that surround us. Howe offers a fleeting portrait of that intersection in the poem, "En Route to My Father's Funeral" At a pale crossroads, in an open shop two floors up, a welder works into the night. His arc is lonesome in the cool air, gobbets of fire like unformed angels falling. Whether you live on the high plains or it lives in your memory, the poems of Cloudshade, like the first summer rain, bring the sounds, scents, and the vividness of life back to us, whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sastrugi Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9780996020695
• ISBN-10: 0996020691
• Artikelnr.: 44200881

Autorenporträt

Lori Howe is the author of Cloudshade: Poems of the High Plains (Satrugi Press, 2015), Voices at Twilight: A Poet's Guide to Wyoming Ghost Towns (Sastrugi Press, 2016), and Stories from Earth: Millennials, Literature, and Teaching Writing that Matters. Her poems, short fiction, and non-fiction appear in numerous journals, anthologies, and books such as The Meadow, Pilgrimage, Northern Lights, Red Hook, Open Window Review, Frontiers Magazine, and the Owen Wister Review. Author Lori Howe holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and Spanish, as well as an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Wyoming. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Literacy Studies at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches in the College of Education, serves on the leadership team of the Wyoming Writing Project, and teaches creative writing/literacy workshops with underserved writers around the state. Her research on creative writing workshop pedagogy appears in journals such as the Journal of Lifelong Learning and Qualitative Inquiry. She is the editor in chief of Clerestory: Poems of the Mountain West (clerestorypoets.org), and has appeared as a guest poet on Wyoming Public Radio. Her current writing project is the novel, Heaven of Olives, set in Wyoming, New York City, and Andalusia, Spain. Visit Lori Howe's author website at: http://lorihoweauthor.com