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Snorri's Edda. Carl Dennis. Charles Atkinson. Corey Marks. Debra Spencer. Franz Wright. Gary Young. The Gawain Poet. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka). Jack Gilbert. Jane Hirshfield. Jorie Graham. Joseph (Joe) Stroud. Karen Braucher. Kay Ryan. Laureate Poets: Britain; USA. Louise Glück. Len Anderson. Li-Young Lee. Linda Pastan. Nordic Skalds. Pulitzer Poetry Prize (U.S.A). Richard Hugo. Robert Bly. Sara Teasdale. Snorri's Edda. Stephen Dunn. Ted Kooser. W.S. Merwin. |
Four poems from Pomegranate
have been featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac
on National Public Radio.
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The things about Spencer's poems that I admire the most are that:
Four sections:
Gradually we stopped talking and she dimmed to a shadow in the mirror late at night, and now I seem to have gotten over her death, which must have happened so long ago that the sound of my heart is all that's left of her. |
The computer flickers. If it all goes away I just wait for the next frame. If they want an answer they'll ask again, or they'll stop asking. The world will return. Light shines steadily through the open window. |
At the end, the only sorrows are that this book did not include one of my favorite of her poems: "I Write From Tibet". And that she has not yet published her follow-up book — which hopefully will include "I Write From Tibet".
This is a very fine book and we urge our readers to obtain their own copy.
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except for work quoted from other writers. The quoted poems are Copyright © 2004-2015 by Debra Spencer. |
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