The winning volume in the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is To the Place of Trumpets. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: "Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poems suggest a kind of folk art-their clay washed of narrative grit, serviceably turned and fancifully decorated, fired, then filled at the creative instinct's oldest well. It is a pleasure to drink form this fine local pottery."
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Kelly's debutthe 1987 Yale "Younger Poets" winneris of strange and uncommon character. Like Louise Gluck, Kelly has a talent for coaxing out the world's ghosts and then fixing them in personal landscapes of fear and uncertainty. She constructs a sort of mythology of the real, describing the Grimm's fairy tale we wake to everyday: the marriage that is "a thing barely breathing/ . . . that could at any moment . . . fall to utter stillness," "a sun which is pewter and cold as/ water." Smoothed by nuances of sound and rhythm, her poems exude an ambiguous wisdom, an acceptance of the sad magic that returns us constantly to the lives we might have led. Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Above The Quarry
After Your Nap
Christmas Eve, Old People's Guild, Mt. Angel
The Cruel Mother
Dog
Doing Laundry On Sunday
Garden Among Tombs
Given The River
The Greek Alphabet
Harmony Stoneworks, Late Winter
The Hill
The House On Main Street
Imagining Their Own Hymns
The Leaving
Lullaby For The Gardener
Mount Angel
Music School
Napa Valley
Near The Race Track
The Peaceable Kingdom
The Place Of Trumpets
Queen Elizabeth And The Blind Girl
Spring Musical, Harmony School
Sundays
The Teacher
The Thief's Wife
Those Who Wrestle With The Angel For Us
To The Lost Child
The Visitation
The White Deer
Young Wife's Lament
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
After Your Nap
Christmas Eve, Old People's Guild, Mt. Angel
The Cruel Mother
Dog
Doing Laundry On Sunday
Garden Among Tombs
Given The River
The Greek Alphabet
Harmony Stoneworks, Late Winter
The Hill
The House On Main Street
Imagining Their Own Hymns
The Leaving
Lullaby For The Gardener
Mount Angel
Music School
Napa Valley
Near The Race Track
The Peaceable Kingdom
The Place Of Trumpets
Queen Elizabeth And The Blind Girl
Spring Musical, Harmony School
Sundays
The Teacher
The Thief's Wife
Those Who Wrestle With The Angel For Us
To The Lost Child
The Visitation
The White Deer
Young Wife's Lament
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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