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Pictograph

Poems

Melissa Kwasny

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English
Milkweed Editions
28 April 2015
""If you would learn the earth as it really is,"" N. Scott Momaday writes, ""learn it through its sacred places."" With this quote as her guiding light, Melissa Kwasny traveled to the ancient pictograph and petroglyph sites around her rural Montana home. The poems in this collection emerge from these visits and capture the natural world she encounters around the sacred art, filling it with new, personal meaning: brief glimpses of starlight through the trees become a reminder of the impermanence of life, the controlled burn of a forest a sign of the changes associated with aging. Unlike traditional nature poets, however, Kwasny acknowledges the active spirit of each place, agreeing that, ""we make a sign and we receive."" Not only do we give meaning to nature, Kwasny suggests, but nature gives meaning to us. As the collection closes, the poems begin to coalesce into a singular pictograph, creating ""a fading language that might be a bridge to our existence here.""
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Imprint:   Milkweed Editions
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   127g
ISBN:   9781571314628
ISBN 10:   1571314628
Pages:   80
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Pictograph: Poems

Praise for the Author Melissa Kwasny's poems are so exact in their movement and presentation, so fresh in their botanical and observatory language . . . It is difficult for me to express my admiration and enthusiasm. --Christopher Howell Melissa Kwasny's work serves as a brilliant tonic, reminding us of the essential gravitas of poems of distinction. --Albert Goldbarth As nearly all our great poets tell us, it is by attending scrupulously to other that we best understand ourselves. So it is that in Melissa Kwasny's tender, brilliantly described encounters. --Patricia Goedicke


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