Moving in Memory: Poems - Softcover

Randall, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807113883 ISBN 13: 9780807113882

Publisher: LSU Press, 1987

Synopsis

Moving in Memory, Julia Randall’s sixth volume of poems, explores our relationship to nature, to art, and to our past selves. In these poems, Randall’s familiar terrain―the woods, streams, and fields of Maryland―becomes our own. She takes us “through the fields/ of Queen Anne’s Lace and clover,” through woods filled with rock maple and sassafras, to places she discovered as a child.

I am Piedmont born and bred
between far hills and sea,
great hardwoods overhead,
and waters gently
falling down the Bay

But these poems also express Randall’s uneasiness with trying to exist in a world increasingly divorced from nature. They spring from a sensibility that pits memory and its recovery in art against the encroachments of commerce and technology.

What shall restore
cedar and sycamore, sweet springs,
the secrets of the forest floor, where now
backhoes and scaffoldings
and gray computers set us free
to manufacture loves and lifeless things
along the steely groves where no bird
sings?

Unmistakably a lyric poet, Randall varies traditional forms in a way that is both reminiscent and original. Her musicality often surprises us into the recognition that poems can still sound like poems. In writing about place, memory, aging, and loss, Julia Randall displays a wide-ranging intelligence, a keen eye, and a necessary anger, as well as joy, humor, and acceptance.

About this title

About the Author:

Julia Randall is the author of The Puritan Carpenter, Adam’s Dream, The Farewells, and other books.

Review:

Adeste Fideles: Christmas, 1982
Anemones
Another Poet Of Nature
Answer To Annie
Anthracnose
Arias
Assorted Masters Perform
The Banana Tree At Carney
Blooms All Summer
Christmas, 1984
The Clearing
Cooking The Heart
Dingman's Falls
Drawing In
A Dream Of Reunion
Duncansby Head
Duns Scotus's Carinish
The Economy, The Environment, Etc
For The Keeper Of Mss
Foundations
Grackles
Grieving Ahead
The Hero At 50
Homage To Corot
Honeyhouse Hill
I Love New York, Virginia, Channel 2, Pier I, Etc
Metals, Etc
Middle Age, Middle East
Moving In Memory
Mysteries
New Words For The Wind
Notes From Cezanne
Praying In Space
Recipes
Rosa
Second Childhood
Silence
Skara Brae
Subtracted Memories
Thunder
Touchstones Ii
Translation
Tripping
Trumpet Vine
A Valediction
Video Games
The Wilderness Of This World
Willowware
Winter Bloom
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0807113883
• ISBN 13: 9780807113882
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 51