Catalpa - Softcover
Second edition of Lyon's award-winning first volume of poetry, now with an introduction by Robert West.
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I was humming "Mist on the Mountain"
and shelling peas
I was figuring board feet
I was carting off stones
and quilting lettuce
and thinking about a baby growing ripe inside
I was voting
I was lifting pain
out by the roots,
the bread indoors
breathing beneath a thin towel,
when a D-10 dozer came
and rolled me off the front porch.
"Modest and unpretentious.... Whether she is describing her forebears, her children, or the life of her beloved Virginia Woolf, her ear is perfect, impeccable, full of lyric music."
--- Ruth Whitman
"Lyon is never trivial; she writes of things that matter--birth, death, family, community.... her metaphors are always vivid and fresh, and often brilliant.... Lyon's poems are vision to which art has given voice.
--- Jim Wayne Miller
"... these gentle, accurate poems will delight eye and ear."
--- Jane Wilson Joyce
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--- Ruth Whitman
"Lyon is never trivial; she writes of things that matter--birth, death, family, community.... her metaphors are always vivid and fresh, and often brilliant.... Lyon's poems are vision to which art has given voice.
--- Jim Wayne Miller
"... these gentle, accurate poems will delight eye and ear."
--- Jane Wilson Joyce
STRIPPED
I was humming "Mist on the Mountain"
and shelling peas
I was figuring board feet
I was carting off stones
and quilting lettuce
and thinking about a baby growing ripe inside
I was voting
I was lifting pain
out by the roots,
the bread indoors
breathing beneath a thin towel,
when a D-10 dozer came
and rolled me off the front porch.
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- PublisherWind Pubns
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0963654527
- ISBN 13 9780963654526
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages61
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