Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards
The Early Days of Aviation
The Invisible Man remained
The Bird is Her Reason
Anonymous Lyric
Love Poem
Fly
Dangerous for Girls
Apart, Away
First Taste
Weathercam—the Horizon
The Bitter After
Sorry I Don't Like You
The Beginning of Things
This is for the silver of highway
Notes
“Whether it’s a crowded New York subway, a truckstop in Tennessee, or a cheap hotel in the South of France, each place Voisine takes on in these heart-grabbing poems suddenly reveals both its most dangerous and its most thrilling core. These poems constitute a lyric chronicle of the exhilaration and difficulty of making one’s way in a world by turns so generous and so stingy. One way or another, each of them charts the ‘old fashioned, struggling / with grace.’”
“Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream generates and sustains a momentum all its own. Centered firmly in a sensibility both ‘rare’ and ‘high,’ it is as down to earth as what we all walk on. It’s a book I won't be able to read enough times.”
“Connie Voisine is that rarity—a lyric poet of the highest order who is also a wonderful storyteller. She has mastered the narrative poem with a fierce precocity, infusing her lines with a dark, shimmering music and employing a variety of voices, all perfectly pitched. From the stunning ‘First Taste,’ rich and compressed as a novella, to the staccato imagery of her shorter poems, she is a poet of transport, of transformative journeys, from the lower depths of Manhattan to the open highways of the West. This is a brilliant collection from a poet with a long career before her, and I shall treasure it.”
Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles Times Book Award
Short Listed
Finalist, Poetry category
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature | Poetry
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