Poetry. "I was struck by the wisdom of this work, a quiet wisdom that inheres in images so fully imagined that one can never forget them. The language has been so thoroughly purified that truth becomes, in the telling, austerely beautiful. DAYS is one of those rare books that I will keep beside my bed table for years to come" -Jay Parini.
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Sam Hamill, the widely respected poet, critic, and editor, writes that Gary Young's poems "flow on in an elegant simplicity." Elaborating on this quality with an allusion to the greatest of haiku poets, Hamill adds, "This is a book Basho would admire." That's the kind of praise that can actually work against the poet, setting readers' expectations way too high, yet Young, in this series of austere and moving untitled prose poems, never fails to satisfy. Consider the quiet intensity of this piece: "Trembling and furious, the baby screams. He's tired, and his own body frightens him. I hold him by his shoulders and sing. It's a sad song, but he finally sleeps. It's a sad song, but even silence can be a terror, and a violence, and I keep singing."
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Above Grace Church
The Baby Fusses
The Baby Grabs
Beneath The Climbing Vine
Black Soot Stained
Boulders Roll And Chime
The Boy Can't Sleep
A Boy Wandered
The Channel Ice Splits
The Chimes Are Silent
An Earthquake Terrified Us
Falling Limbs
The Fruit Trees Bloom
I Discovered A Stream
I Don't Know Where
I Had Never Seen Her
I Have Such Envy
I Last Saw My Mother
I Put Asters
I Walked Through
I Wanted A House
I Watched A Snake
I'm A Mother, Too
I'm Reading The Stars
If I Could Take My Son
If We Lived Alone
In A Dream That Shouldn't
In The Dream I Am
It Is Winter
A Man Feeds Pigeons
My Brother Is Talking
My Fear Of Drowning
My Friend Is Dying
My House Is In Ruins
My Son Wakes Screaming
My Wife And Child
On The Third Day
Our Cat Was Killed
Our Son Was Born
Queen Anne's Lace
The Service Was Brief
She Took My Two Hands
Space And Time
The Stillborn Calf
The Stream Echoed
The Sun Is A Star
The Swallows Hide
Tea Steeps In My Old Cup
Those Clouds Didn't Gather
Three Girls
Trembling And Furious
Two Girls Were Struck
We Are Less Surrounded
We Sat In A Silence
Where Deer Tracks Enter
The World Is Made
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
The Baby Fusses
The Baby Grabs
Beneath The Climbing Vine
Black Soot Stained
Boulders Roll And Chime
The Boy Can't Sleep
A Boy Wandered
The Channel Ice Splits
The Chimes Are Silent
An Earthquake Terrified Us
Falling Limbs
The Fruit Trees Bloom
I Discovered A Stream
I Don't Know Where
I Had Never Seen Her
I Have Such Envy
I Last Saw My Mother
I Put Asters
I Walked Through
I Wanted A House
I Watched A Snake
I'm A Mother, Too
I'm Reading The Stars
If I Could Take My Son
If We Lived Alone
In A Dream That Shouldn't
In The Dream I Am
It Is Winter
A Man Feeds Pigeons
My Brother Is Talking
My Fear Of Drowning
My Friend Is Dying
My House Is In Ruins
My Son Wakes Screaming
My Wife And Child
On The Third Day
Our Cat Was Killed
Our Son Was Born
Queen Anne's Lace
The Service Was Brief
She Took My Two Hands
Space And Time
The Stillborn Calf
The Stream Echoed
The Sun Is A Star
The Swallows Hide
Tea Steeps In My Old Cup
Those Clouds Didn't Gather
Three Girls
Trembling And Furious
Two Girls Were Struck
We Are Less Surrounded
We Sat In A Silence
Where Deer Tracks Enter
The World Is Made
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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