{"product_id":"drinking-the-river-poems-paperback","title":"Drinking the River: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Polk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e There is elemental life in David Polk's poems, intimate moments when it seems our remove from the natural world-fatal to it-can be bridged. It is the poetry of that connection in daily life and the imagination. The great river floods, a blue wasp sails dreamlike through the house. Suddenly a copperhead lies snake-thick across the hiker's path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poet's \"mind is at once local and transcendent in its reach,\" says the writer William Benton, and \"local\" here means the western end of Kentucky where the continent's four great rivers join.\" The watershed's birds and wildlife, too, are the book's familiars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems often slip seamlessly from narration to meditation. On the Ohio, which is immense here, the poet's canoe gains \"on a lily pad broken loose and beside it\/ a mouse-pale belly up-no longer resisting\/ the \u003cem\u003eforward\u003c\/em\u003e, the careless and incessant forward.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe overall sequence of the book follows the seasonal recurrence, and gradually, as it unfolds, a life-span is implied. Though most of the poems center on our relation to the natural world, there are those too that explore the world of the poet's family and other loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377643741491,"sku":"9781947917644","price":25.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Vsu5WbpRVF9781947917644.webp?v=1779326019","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/drinking-the-river-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}