A Gathered Distance: Poems

by Mark Tredinnick

LIVING DISABLES us, sooner or later. This book records an instance.

Among its other purposes--celebration, witness, seeing justice done, recasting life's exquisite spell, replenishment of language--lyric poetry, that deeper speaking, consoles like no other human accomplishment. Greg Orr has argued that all cultures in all times have evolved the lyric poem to help humans, us languaging animals, survive spiritual catastrophe. Lyric poems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0995371849
• ISBN13: 9780995371842
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Birdfish Books
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 6.5"