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- Book Title
- Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
- Publication Name
- Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
- Title
- Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780814346457
- ISBN
- 9780814346457
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 30/04/2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 220g
- Series
- Made in Michigan Writers Series
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Product Information
Jack Ridl returns with a collection of poems that mix deft artistic skill with intimate meditations on everyday life, whether that be curiosity, loss, discovery, joy, or the passing of the seasons. This is the work of a talented and seasoned poet, one whose work comes out of the "plainspoken" tradition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
0814346456
ISBN-13
9780814346457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038759469
Product Key Features
Book Title
Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3568.I3593a6 2019
Reviews
A remarkable piece of loving words and observations of daily living in nature and our surrounding homes., Michigan poet Jack Ridl's new book "Saint Peter and the Goldfinch" features keen observations of simple human transactions, such as in "The Week After" where a divorced father meets again his two young sons, and though they are "eight and seven...He will read to them tonight/ for the first time.", These poems typically begin with a series of quiet, levelheaded observations and end in a wild imaginative leap. Jack Ridl has found a pattern that delights and surprises us poem by poem., The amazing poetry of Jack Ridl is written 'in the dust along the windowsill, / the star's lost light falling across / the vase of flowers on the kitchen table.' They are windows opening to mortality; they strike with the grace of starlight, and the warmth of flowers beside a meal. Ridl never fails to illuminate., Open this book to page 27 and read 'Ice Storm.' Feel how it settles in your chest, how your breath resounds with a long, deep, 'Yes,' how subtly you are changed by what you didn't know you knew. I've been reading Jack Ridl's poems with admiration and wonder for almost forty years now and this new work goes ever deeper into the intensified heart of our everyday lives., A delight, filled with the evocative style for which Ridl is known. [. . .] Perhaps the best work yet by Ridl, readers will find the works engaging, enlightening, and insightful., I'm fond of the fact that, beyond the title, Paul Klee does not appear in Jack Ridl's luminous poem at all. I think Klee might have liked that, too. A painter who loved mystical colors blurring, earth to sky, might have liked a vividly descriptive poem which holds a long-ago moment as a hinge for everything to come. "It was just that we knew," is one of those wondrous, instinctive lines containing everything. How rare is an evening like this? How possible? That couple in their 60s might have seemed old then, but they were so alive, so aware. I am crazy about those napkins., At first glance, the poem ["Saint Peter and the Goldfinch"] is a wonderful blend of imagery; upon reflection, it begins to change colors and reveal deeper meanings., Jack Ridl's poems are decelerating thought-provoking impulses, often melancholically humorous meditations on what we like to overlook and on what makes us human. His poems reveal what Wallace Stevens, to whom Ridl also pays a little homage, once said: 'that imagination can surpass the wisdom of philosophers.', For a long time now, Jack Ridl has understood The Word, The Logos, as a meeting place of the body and the mind, the past and the emerging present, time and eternity, the concrete and the abstract, the inner and the outer worlds, the human will and the unknown, and he has practiced said Word as a way to clarify his heart, rectify his spirit, and demystify the workings of the human eye in order to realize human consciousness as a blessing, rather than a blight characterized by confusion and error. In his latest book, we witness his practice deepening, and not far below the warm and neighborly tone of these poems is the sound of a man more and more alone with The Alone. By salvaging what he can of the real and immediate world around him, he preserves for us the idea of The Human as precious and worth saving., And that quiet space - where "the trees will be our amen" - is almost enough for those of us "who are still pilgrims" and who might find the need for poems like these Jack Ridl has written in the daily lives we struggle through.
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-959986
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Made In Michigan Writers Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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