Fimbul-Winter (or Fimbulvetr) takes its title from Norse mythology: three winters with no summers between. Drawing from sources as diverse as Anglo-Saxon literature, Chinese poetry, Emily Dickinson, and the blues, these poems seek sustenance and consolation in a harsh landscape. "Here is a poet who listens, who weighs until all comes remote, comes close, from that place where poetry itself begins: 'the country of Erstwhile, of Meanwhile, of Still.'" - Marianne Boruch
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"Allbery's 'inside-out of waking' is her paradoxical alertness to the dreamy strangeness of our joy and our grief.... A delicate, artful, haunting book." (Reginald Gibbons )
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DEBRA ALLBERY won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Walking Distance. She directs the Warren Wilson MFA Program near Asheville.
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Debra Allbery is back. REJOICE.,
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Debra Allbery, Fimbul-Winter (Four Way Books, 2010)
Back in the early- to mid-nineties, I can't exactly remember when, at a library used-book sale, I stumbled across a then-obscure book by a then-obscure writer and, since it was cheap, I picked it up despite having never heard of either the book or the author who wrote it. That book was Debra Allbery's Walking Distance. I can count on one hand the number of books I've re-read in the past ten years. Walking Distance is the only book I've not only re-read, but re-read twice, since 2000. Needless to say, it's one of my all-time favorites. But time went on without a second book from Allbery, and I resigned myself to the idea that such a book would never, actually, appear. And then, roundabout the middle of last year, I can't exactly remember where, I stumbled upon an article, or a press release, or a webpage, something like that, that told me that Debra Allbery's second book was coming out in October of 2010. Almost twenty years since Walking Distance. Needless to say, I jumped at it, but I had to wonder: had I built this thing up too much in my head? Was I bound to be disappointed? The short answer: no. Fimbul-Winter, Allbery's first book in two decades, is just as exquisite as Walking Distance. "The sky hovers close here, its gray blanket flying just over our heads, fastened down a few miles to the north. It pulls away along the horizon at sunset, the light there flaring riotous, or else blind mute yellow. A raised window, a breathing space." There are about a hundred thousand things I want to tell you about why you should read Debra Allbery, and none of them are coming out right. Is it enough to tell you she's a national treasure, one of our best living writers? Read this. It's only January, but I guarantee you this will make my Best Reads of the Year list. **** ½
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