Uncommon Geography

By Therese Halscheid

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966873904
• ISBN13: 9780966873900
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Carpenter Gothic Publisher
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

mind travel to different places different times via uncommon geography

Therese Halscheid draws from her extensive travels to create a mystical poetic journey. She takes the reader to places she has experienced and to times she has not, at least not in this life. Therese has nurtured an uncanny sense of primal connections with the other creatures of the earth, the earth itself, the sun and the stars. She alludes to the tongueless languages of fire, forest, wind, and sky. She ventures to find man as created, and stimulates an appreciation of primitive wisdom before people "gashed and gouged out such great ways to roam". Therese's poetry stirs a sense of that "forgotten way of being" she mentions in The City Garden. Her travels have allowed her to see many places, but it is as if she has seen them through all of time. The reader is transformed to an elk, the moon, a star, in wonderfully meaningful ways. The poetry is as remarkable for what it intimates as well as for what it says. One of the vital functions of poetry is to transcend the very words it uses. Therese does this as well as any poet I have read. Uncommon Geography is an uncommon experience. Read it and be transported to a place of uncommon understanding.

Get out the tissues!

I read the first poem and had to put the book down so I could get the tissue box. A case of tissues later, the book still stays with me. POWERFUL!!!