Patricia Clark

O Lucky Day (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Patricia Clark's latest poetry collection O Lucky Day explores her concerns about family and mortality, silence and loneliness, widening to include losses in the natural world. These sorrows often emerge along with an exuberance found in the sensual pleasures of taste and touch. Clark trains herself to disappear, into the shagbark / hickory, the scarred maple, / the viburnum just about to flower. She knows that whatever upheaval we bring to the world, and ourselves, something was broken, then healed, then / transformed. She advises us to loaf and ponder, but also to rise with the rustling grasses in lament of environmental degradation, voicing our insistence for reverence of what remains. These lyric poems of intensity and acute detail render the physical world in its tattered glory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Madville Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963695083
• Artikelnr.: 72354809

Autorenporträt

Patricia Clark is the author of six volumes of poetry, including Sunday Rising, The Canopy, and most recently Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, and Slate, among others. Awards include a Creative Artist Grant in Michigan, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize, and co-winner of the Lucille Medwick Prize from the Poetry Society of America. She also received the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the Poetry Society of Virginia for The Canopy. Patricia was professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University, where she was the university's poet-in-residence. She was also poet laureate of the city of Grand Rapids from 2005-2007. Her poem Astronomy 'In Perfect Silence' was chosen to go to the moon on the NASA/Space X launch in November 2024 as part of the Lunar Codex.