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WOOD THRUSH BOOKS -- POETRY |
Back Cover Blurb:
Cultured Wildness is a tightly woven set of prose poems drawn as much from the campsite as the library. While pressing language to its limits, Faivre fuses memories, observations, images and insights into a vision of the wild that transcends all preconceived ideas about nature and culture. The result is both art and philosophy. These paragraphics not only entertain, but also challenge us to reconsider our relationship to the natural world.Excerpts:
"In the bookstore, nature is, wild is, is is the dry spider in its cornered web undusted above the reference texts..."About the Author:"...nature is in the book, but its fibers and glues and glosses do not surprise in this form..."
"As an owl falls from an oak in late daylight, falls not by gravity but decision, falls not to fly off as symbol for wisdom, but as itself..."
"Nature is in the ibuprofen bottle, a ladybug among the rust-colored generics"
Rob Faivre is an Associate Professor of English at Adirondack Community College, where he teaches courses in nature writing, literature and cultural theory. His poems and critical essays have been published in Talisman, Notre Dame Review and other journals. Two slender volumes of his verse have previously appeared in print: Looking for the Lost (The Guild Press, 1996) and Walking (Wood Thrush Books, 2000). He lives in Ballston Spa, New York.
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