This World
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935952390 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 84 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Macker Shows Us Life Judy C. Macker's verse is masterful, and, even better: its wildness is not hampered by mastery. Much like the great Wendell Berry, Macker encourages us to reckon with the beauty of OUR world: the very world we move through as if on our hurried way to someplace else. His poems remind us of the beauty in pain, the beauty in compassion, the beauty in moments we don't have to reach or wait for but have access to right now. A rare work of art My goodness did this book land in my lap at the right time. We live in such a harried world, full of rushing and anxiety, and we're so consistently blind to the joys and aches of real life unfolding around us. This World, aptly named, is a beautiful and soul-bared dive into the now, a mindful meditation on the stuff we ought to be paying attention to. To say it resonated would be putting it far too lightly. It. Wonderful and wise This is a great book.As you read it, you will find the world coming alive around you. With a steady, unflinching and compassionate eye, Macker peels the onionskins surrounding our world, revealing the joy, tragedy and mystery we are often too busy to see. Macker's acute awareness of nature deepens his explorations of what it means to be human. In this book you will find love, death, naughty parrots, sex, trage
Macker is that rare poet these days who is a mystic and seeker of truths. David James DuncanThis is the rarest of booksa visionary feast by a loving master of wisdom. Andrew HarveyEarthy and agrarian, full of sensuality and ardor brave, reverent, and capacious. The RumpusWho touches this touches a man. In his quest, he examines the world in all its insect particularity” and renders poems with the intensity and delicate skill of a painter of Persian miniatures. Be forewarned: this collection willto borrow a line from Macker’s poem Numen”make one’s soul tilt.” Karina Borowicz, author of Proof. Take them to card games. There is at its core a trembling sense of wonder grounded by a rich insect particularity,” by the lilac undersides of trout.” Many prescient lines in this necessary book r
Within these pages, Macker also chronicles the journey inside the whale, telling us not just of fear and trembling but also of the magnificent harps only found in the belly of the beast. In the lucid, melodic, various poems of This World, Teddy Macker returns us to the great mystery all around us, a mystery we so easily forget, the mystery of trout, the mystery of orchard, the mystery of our beautiful human bodies. By turns ecological, erotic, compassionate, and mystical, these poems return us to this world, the kingdom we’ve been looking for.”