
Monument in a Summer Hat
James Armstrong(Author)
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press
Will be published approx. on 23. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
53 pages
978-1-930974-96-8 (ISBN)
Description
In James Armstrong's pellucid poetry the drifting of autumn leaves shares space with the baroque architecture of nineteenth century England. A woman peruses a book of pharmaceuticals in a coffee shop looking for hints of happiness. And a naked woman wearing hip boots stares out of the 1940s in a photograph hung in a Michigan bar. Twilight is always moving the shadows of our urban lives out toward the country, our inherited past, where a deer or a heron waits like an angel glimpsed through the fog. Armstrong's poems elucidate the mystery and beauty of borders- temporal and historical, as well as geographical- while his pastoral sensibility floods our senses with images of the natural world, seemingly stopping time, edifying us, and helping us-for a few moments anyway-to transcend our enervated contemporary lives. Reading this book is like diving into a deep lake. It cleanses the soul.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-930974-96-8 (9781930974968)
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