Crow Mercies - Softcover
Poetry. Crows are loud and insistent. They are smart and relentless. They are not easily tricked. Instead, they play tricks. The mercy they practice is a measured mercy. They are not mean but they are clear-sighted. They see a long distance backwards and forwards. They are dark but shining. Likewise, the poems in CROW MERCIES survey large territories, sometimes with an overview, sometimes close-at-claw. Winner of the first Sarah Lantz Memorial Poetry Prize (from CALYX Books), poet Penelope Scambly Schott draws on myriad experiences to bring herself and the reader into a deeper and far-reaching connection to the world.
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Penelope Scambly Schott has published three poetry narratives, four poetry collections, and five chapbooks, including CROW MERCIES (CALYX Books, 2010) and SIX LIPS (Mayapple Press, 2009). She has received a Hopwood Award, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, a Poetry Society of America award, and four fellowships from the New Jersey.
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Penelope Schott’s poems, like shields of hammered copper, stand between a speaker (speaking by turns fierce and tender) and a listening grandson, mother, husband, bear-husband, butterfly sipping from their common cup. Entering your life, these poems will be invited to stay, even as you feed them, generously one by one, to friends and strangers, but keep the very best close with your secrets.” Kim Stafford, author of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft
To the primarily narrative tradition of Northwest poetry, poet Penelope Scambly Schott brings a surreal poetry of a rich, inventive imagination. In many poems of Crow Mercies, the unique imagery leaps out as if it has a life of its own, while, at the same time, feeling integrated, indeed essential, to the poem. ” Peter Sears, author of Green Diver (C.W. Books)
To read these poems is to fall in love (again) with poetry. What the poet says to the lover is offered here to us.... Truly we are fed, surprised, delighted, caused to laugh and to weep in the world that Penelope Scambly Schott brings home to us in Crow Mercies. She is a master of language.” Pat Schneider, author of Writing Alone and With Others (Oxford University Press)
To the primarily narrative tradition of Northwest poetry, poet Penelope Scambly Schott brings a surreal poetry of a rich, inventive imagination. In many poems of Crow Mercies, the unique imagery leaps out as if it has a life of its own, while, at the same time, feeling integrated, indeed essential, to the poem. ” Peter Sears, author of Green Diver (C.W. Books)
To read these poems is to fall in love (again) with poetry. What the poet says to the lover is offered here to us.... Truly we are fed, surprised, delighted, caused to laugh and to weep in the world that Penelope Scambly Schott brings home to us in Crow Mercies. She is a master of language.” Pat Schneider, author of Writing Alone and With Others (Oxford University Press)
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- PublisherCALYX Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0934971110
- ISBN 13 9780934971119
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages86
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