Blue Pearl (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811226832 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
orca / in a sea blue room, / breathing pearls that rise to the surface from Blue Pearl. What does northness sound like? The music of Iceland, Greenland, the Svalbard archipelago. Dogs on the shale, eels in the current, a ship strains as it’s pulled up by a needle, a whaler unwinds the skinHarrison’s poems voyage forth with visible breath, “as snow falls as light is in paper.”. Songs of birds and ice and wind. In Lesley Harrison’s Blue Pearl, her first collection to appear in the United States, northern landscapes come alive through an intimacy of language that forms a collective sense of place through weather, history, local myths and customs, and childhood fairy tales
She is the author of One Bird Flying: poems from the Great Road, Beyond the Map, and Ecstatics: a Language of Birds, which won the National Library of Scotland Callum Macdonald Award. . About the Author Lesley Harrison grew up on the Angus coast in Scotland
She is the author of One Bird Flying: poems from the Great Road, Beyond the Map, and Ecstatics: a Language of Birds, which won the National Library of Scotland Callum Macdonald Award. Lesley Harrison grew up on the Angus coast in Scotland.