Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Cohasset, CA : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Bear Star Press ; Distributed by Small Press Distribution, c2011.
Description
Poetry. WOODNOTE is Christine Deavel's debut and winner of the 2011 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. Indiana is the backdrop for poems that range through time and lyrically blend poetry, prose, and fragment to deliver their news: "Knowledge comes as a covering snow; below is the old understanding."
User reviews
LibraryThing member mermind
I enjoyed this elegiac volume of lyrics. These poems assert through lyric that the past, our natural environment, our history is not entirely lost to the attentive, loving, expressive imagination. It can be encased in careful words. I like the writer. At one point she rejects the word "precious" as
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a pejorative, and I do too. These poems remind me of Ropert Brooke's poem "The Lover". They are much more modern in style, but with a similar catalogue-like quality that left me a little sad, but prepared to look more carefully at my own world. Show Less
Awards
Washington State Book Award (Winner — Poetry — 2012)
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Inscribed to Chris by author