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madigum's review
3.5
like most older poetry collections, there are only a handful that i’m extremely moved by. however i love to study kenyon for her syntax of the domestic
kjboldon's review
5.0
I borrowed this after reading Dani Shapiro's "Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life." A lovely book of poems.
nightwater32's review
5.0
I read this after finishing Donald Hall's work "The Best Day, The Worst Day" about his life with Kenyon and her battle with leukemia. The bits of information and knowledge gleaned about their life together, the history of their house and their life in it, made these poems more full of meaning and perhaps I enjoyed them even more than I would have had I only pulled this book from a shelf to read without context. That said, the poems were still masterful.
towardinfinitybooks's review against another edition
3.0
Favorites:
"Here"
"Ironing Grandmother's Tablecloth"
"Here"
"Ironing Grandmother's Tablecloth"
painauchocolat's review
This long struggle to be at home
in the body, this difficult friendship.
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A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh.
Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk,
and the air drunk, like wine;
late sun lays bare
the rosy limbs of the pinetrees.
Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is within me again.
1964
in the body, this difficult friendship.
-
A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh.
Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk,
and the air drunk, like wine;
late sun lays bare
the rosy limbs of the pinetrees.
Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
the secret of secrets is within me again.
1964
senid's review
5.0
I read a quote once that said poetry is about the spaces between words. I felt the spaces in these poems. A few will go in my notebook of favorite poems. Very calm and thoughtful. Observant of everyday objects, but also connecting to emotions, thoughts, and memory.
hannahbananarama's review
4.0
Lovely, sometimes melancholy and sometimes sweet. Simple and lyrical, made me ache for home and brought to mind thoughts of fall and winter.
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