The Etymology of Spruce - Softcover
...Joyce Wilson writes about the self and others without reflexive ironies. Her project, common to much of our poetry, resists the pull of universal angst and particularizes experience (or the fiction of experience) into syntactically and sensuously pleasing gestures. In Provisions, Wilson invokes the life-changing journey-metaphor in homey terms ... Such writing invokes time-honored pleasures of poetry: the lilt of sound on the tongue and in the ear, the summoning of past experience, the recovery of sounds and odors. Proust as much as Stevens or Eliot lurks behind these modern and postmodern forms of nostalgia, and without his example of sensuous grace much contemporary poetry would collapse into unmediated sentiment.
William Doreski, Harvard Review
William Doreski, Harvard Review
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About the Author:
Joyce Wilson, editor and creator of The Poetry Porch, a magazine on the Internet, teaches English at Suffolk University. Her poems have appeared in literary journals such as Antigonish Review, Agni, Cyphers, Harvard Review, and Poetry Ireland. She reviews books of poetry regularly for Harvard Review; other reviews can be read online at The Drunken Boat.
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Joyce Wilson s first book, with its intriguing, seductive title, is long overdue. It has the virtues of a first book a fresh voice with a fresh perspective but none of the drawbacks. This is a very grown-up enterprise, loving without sinking into sentimentality, aware of life s ironies and horrors yet confident enough as in the remarkable couplets of The Rodin Drawing to accept the possibility of a happy ending. I know I won t forget these poems and look forward to re-reading them with pleasure. --Lloyd Schwartz, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston
This is Joyce Wilson s book of memory, where we see its deep roots and dynamic energies, the way it flowers in images of beauty and pain, images that the poet both embraces and resists. In these beautifully crafted poems the imagined past helps make the present tense of life more real, as real as can be, even beautiful. --Fred Marchant, author of The Looking House
I love these poems for their intimacy, humor, and surprise. It s hard to write well about writing, yet she does it here in more than one poem. Her approach to writing about writing is workmanlike and highly original. --Ellen Davis, College of Communication, Boston University
This is Joyce Wilson s book of memory, where we see its deep roots and dynamic energies, the way it flowers in images of beauty and pain, images that the poet both embraces and resists. In these beautifully crafted poems the imagined past helps make the present tense of life more real, as real as can be, even beautiful. --Fred Marchant, author of The Looking House
I love these poems for their intimacy, humor, and surprise. It s hard to write well about writing, yet she does it here in more than one poem. Her approach to writing about writing is workmanlike and highly original. --Ellen Davis, College of Communication, Boston University
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- PublisherRock Village Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1934400181
- ISBN 13 9781934400180
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages82
- EditorEdward And Yolanda Lodi, Carolyn Gilmore
- IllustratorAllegra Printz
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