Jim Clark's second collection of poems finds him in a more narrative and meditative mode, although the lyricism of his first collection, Dancing on Canaan's Ruins, is still much in evidence. The poems here tend to stretch out a bit, and afford him ample opportunity to explore the rich veins of experience contained in these landscapes and voices. There is a rough-hewn quality to many of these poems, but Clark's craftsmanship and control is everywhere apparent. The poems in Handiwork, in the words of the title poem, "move surely, methodically, knowing/what comes next."
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Jim Clark can move from lyrical wistfulness to comedy to narrative brilliance in a breath. Handiwork is more than handy work. It is masterful work-written with vision, mystery, and emotional breadth and power. Yet Jim Clark's poetry speaks in a language many will understand and enjoy.-Joe David Bellamy
Jim Clark's Handiwork gathers together a tapestry of voices, voices that become as real in their poems as those of the friends and neighbors with whom we live every day: "The figure of the woman in the garden,/the brightly colored fruit poised at her lips,/is not archetypal-she is a friend of mine." In these lines from the book's title poem, we see the vision that guides this book and makes palpable the authenticity that resonates in each of the poems. In these lyrical narratives, Clark invites us into a world that ultimately opens into our own stories, their mysteries of loss and survival.-Kathryn Stripling Byer
In poems such a "The Land Under the Lake" Jim Clark touches the buried depths of memory and family connections, and the heights of formal brilliance, poetic authority. There are many voices in Handiwork, exact and vivid, but the truest voice is Clark's own, authentic, powerful. The poems feel at once inevitable and very new, and the stories they tell are stories we cannot forget.-Robert Morgan
About the Author
Jim Clark was born in Byrdstown, Tennessee, and educated at Vanderbilt University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of Denver. His poems and stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Appalachian Heritage, Now and Then, and in many other magazines and anthologies. He has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and received the Harriette Simpson Arnow award. He has taught at Auburn University, directed the creative writing program at the University of Georgia, and is presently Writer-in-Residence at Barton College, in Wilson, North Carolina. His first book of poems, Dancing on Canaan's Ruins, is now in its second printing.
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