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Poetry. I drag the machine by its serpentine nose, / and it churns its belly into a hungry nothing, / all gullet, sucking at the lips of paradise, / emptying noise and silence into its hollow whine. (Vacuuming). Whether its piano practice, window washing, or a game of jacks, Jeanne Emmons brings to her domestic poems a rich lyric awareness and a wise if wistful acceptance of human limitations. Maxine Kumin.
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The poems in Rootbound are restrained, artfully formed, mature. Always Emmons aims toward poetry of the highest caliber, and her success is the reader's pleasure.
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. . . . My poems represent a quest toward connecting with the past and with the present moment. They record both an urge toward relationship and intimacy with others in the face of our apparent separateness and toward kinship with the natural world, which often answers us back with its alienness.
. . . I have tried to make my poems accessible. Above all else, these poems are a bridge between my sensibility and the reader's, a way of reaching out and making contact with those strangers who will, for a few moments, see the world from inside my head and think with my thoughts. That is a terrifying idea. Yet we poets wish for readers in the same way that all of us wish to be known by heart. The ghost of my reader sits beside me as I write and is, for me, a condition that makes writing purposeful and gratifying.
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- PublisherNew Rivers Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0898231841
- ISBN 13 9780898231847
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages99
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