Rain Through High Windows

By Edward Haworth Hoeppner

These poems slow the planet so gradually that all adapt to its halt; one forgets that time should be passing, accepts the poet's "static divine" and lets "hours line up like saints." Each poem loses us further in Hoeppner's wilderness: his natural world is held lightly on the tongue until it dissolves; his patience allows us to listen as "the full moon in soft Italian whispers off the balcony, parsing bluish dust . . . " This is a book that finds peace not in consequence but in the innocence of result, the slip into what comes after.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093282692X
• ISBN13: 9780932826923
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

I gave this book five stars

Mr. Hoeppner's poetry returns me to a valuable, thoughtful place where all things come together to weave a satisfaction and peace--an inclusive peace with materials, emotions, perceptions, and those things I am inclined to dismiss because I don't understand them. Mr. Hoeppner seems to have taken expectaction apart and created a new faith in what the life around us can mean. I like the feeling that he is moving through time and place gathering the most unlikely things and fitting them together. I think that Mr. Hoeppner explores a lovely level of honesty with what we want, and what we can and can't have. Mostly, I like the way this book of poetry returns me to the world with such a heightened sense of awareness of my surroundings, and my place within them.Poems like Red Shoulders and Landscape Minus Figures were the first to draw me in, but in the end I think the real, original beauty of this book lies in poems like Six Compulsory Figures, Spell, Its Thousand Pale Shadows, and Spirits of Place. In these poems especially there is not so much a story--it feels like Mr. Hoeppner is drawing life close around him, attuning himself to the details. It reminds me somehow of Alice falling down the rabbit hole, picking off marmalade from one shelf with curious wonder, and putting on another shelf further on. This is a complex collection of many different kinds of poems which each have value. Read it more than once.