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Peake, Richard

 
9780595465996: Birds and Other Beasts
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ISBN 10: 0595465994 ISBN 13: 9780595465996
Editorial: iUniverse, 2007

Sinopsis

There is tremendous variety in form, theme, and tone in the poems in this volume. Many of the poems may strike the reader as a corroboration of Thoreau's view of wildness and wilderness, because Peake's love of wild things forms his poetic center, but this book also includes intense love poems as well as celebrations of birds and trees and lightning bugs.Though Peake celebrates nature, he does not view it with sentimentality. He faces without tears a world in which one creature preys upon another for survival, and he looks without fear to the "revelry of grave" when his form becomes food for worms and feeds the laurel bushes growing over him.According to critic John Lang, Peake's poems reveal "a poet whose ear is attuned to the music of words" His poems abound "in beautiful lines and images: 'The black-necked waders cry in their wet fields,' for example, and 'skies the white-faced ibis soars.' Such lines embody in Fred Chappell's phrase, 'the eye's joy.'" Like Peake's descriptions of finding a rare green kingfisher, for readers of his poems, "Delight follows discovery."

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There is tremendous variety in form, theme, and tone in the poems in this volume. Many of the poems may strike the reader as a corroboration of Thoreau's view of wildness and wilderness, because Peake's love of wild things forms his poetic center, but this book also includes intense love poems as well as celebrations of birds and trees and lightning bugs.

Though Peake celebrates nature, he does not view it with sentimentality. He faces without tears a world in which one creature preys upon another for survival, and he looks without fear to the "revelry of grave" when his form becomes food for worms and feeds the laurel bushes growing over him.

According to critic John Lang, Peake's poems reveal "a poet whose ear is attuned to the music of words" His poems abound "in beautiful lines and images: 'The black-necked waders cry in their wet fields,' for example, and 'skies the white-faced ibis soars.' Such lines embody in Fred Chappell's phrase, 'the eye's joy.'" Like Peake's descriptions of finding a rare green kingfisher, for readers of his poems, "Delight follows discovery."

Biografía del autor

Peake published his first poems as an undergraduate and has since published poems in journals, a chapbook, and a book that collected some of his poems written before the 1990?s. He has always had a deep interest in the natural world. A grandfather, he lives in Texas and Virginia .

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Editorial
iUniverse
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0595465994
ISBN 13 
9780595465996
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Número de páginas
240
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