Half Wild: Poems (Walt Whitman Award)

Half Wild: Poems (Walt Whitman Award)
- ISBN13: 9780807131626
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Winner of the 2005 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets "[O'Reilley's is] a style that celebrates . . . that mystery we call the soul. That part of us that is of another world, come perhaps to instruct us in this one" -Mary Oliver, from her judge's citation Half Wild is spiritual biography wound backwards, spiraling into the world rather than out of it. Though it reflects on the paradoxes of our violent times, Mary Rose O'Reilley's collection hangs on to life like the bee "up to his hips in love" who "will fall asleep in the snow" and "wake up still kissing his flower." In O'Reilley's poems, human, animal, and mineral creations interpenetrate and share surreal conversation-even stones exchange stories of "hot times in the magma" and animals are listened to intently. Here sacred inquiry is grounded in a passion for the natural world, resolving questions through lyric, erotic, and sensual response. The poems of Half Wild revel in desire and longing as instruments of theological critique.

Country	USA
Author	Mary Rose O'Reilley
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Louisiana State University Press
EAN	9780807131626
Edition	1
ISBN	0807131628
Label	Louisiana State University Press
Manufacturer	Louisiana State University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	76
PublicationDate	2006-02-01
Publisher	Louisiana State University Press
Studio	Louisiana State University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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