Country of Light

Name: Country of Light
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ISBN: 9781556592058

ISBN-10: 1556592051

ISBN-13: 9781556592058

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph Stroud

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Joseph Stroud was all but unknown when, in 1998, Below Cold Mountain appeared. As reviewers took note of this gorgeous book by a reclusive poet, Stroud's poems found a larger audience: Garrison Keillor read them on NPR and his poems were reprinted in The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. The sentiment shared by readers and booksellers was one of discovery. In Joseph Stroud's new book, his poetic imagination infuses landscapes, hard travel, and commonplace objects. Whether trekking through Mexico or Vietnam, living in the High Sierras, or "painting paradise" in the voice of Renaissance painter Giotto, Stroud's lyrics, prose poems, elegies, and odes articulate a journey of uncommon…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Joseph Stroud is the author of four books of poetry, and his poems have been widely anthologized as well as featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac. Stroud lives in Santa Cruz, California, and at Shay Creek in the Sierra Nevada mountains.




Plainsong


The potato


Dancing with Machado


The performance


First kiss


In a Lydian mode


Ode to the smell of firewood


Homage to George Mackay Brown


The birdcages of Oaxaca


The old poets home


Book of horror


Book of psalms


Rooms



Daybook, nightbook : Shay Creek


Waking


Lodestone


In the stream pavilion


Writhing in tongues


On what planet


During the rains


Over the edge


Scatology


The little Taj


Cutting down the Jeffrey


Wintering


Living alone


Homage to the thief


Reading Joyce in winter


Late night, year's end, doing the books with Tu Fu



I wanted to paint paradise



Passing Through


Sleeper, awake


Altair and Vega crossing the river of heaven


Swath


Iris


Cathedral


Memory : Quonset Hut, Rodger Young Village, 1947


In my father's mansion there are many rooms


Reading Wallace Stevens


If only the dreamer could change the dream


The executions on Principe Pio Hill


Closing this year's anthology, I think of Radulfus Glaber, who sought refuge


My Lord what a morning when the stars begin to fall


Coat of many colors


Elsewhere


My marriage with death


Rune


Stitching the woe shirt


The death of Lorca


Into the dragon


What he told me in Phongsali


Speaking in tongues


Passing through


At the well of heavenly clarity


Country of clouds