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Book SynopsisIn her third collection of poetry, Karen Enns ranges over endings of many kinds: cultural, ecological, and personal. But the poems are also replete with affirmations of love, of music and language, and of our rootedness in place and history. Enns describes our predicament with startling and surreal precision, yet also with tenderness and compassion. Her work is unusually wise in the ways of innocence as well as grief. 'The poems in Cloud Physics need to be listened to as much as read. These are poems informed by music as well as by language. Bells, wind chimes, waves, whispers, medieval chants and orbital winds are part of an untethered longing. There is a sense, in this book, of something loosed--of a fine mind taking in the world and giving back to us something we didn't know we knew.' - Eve Joseph, author of In the Slender Margin
Trade Review"The poems in Cloud Physics need to be listened to as much as read. These are poems informed by music as well as by language. Bells, wind chimes, waves, whispers, medieval chants and orbital winds are part of an untethered longing. There is a sense, in this book, of something loosed -- of a fine mind taking in the world and giving back to us something we didn't know we knew." -- Eve Joseph, author of "In the Slender Margin"
Personal and remote, cool and exacting, mysteriously exciting, like a top skier these poems cut their own tracks. - Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Turtle Island
Table of ContentsCloud Physics Epilogue The Planets Are Moving In Birthday Nostalgia Dissolving Syllables We Woke to a New Century Ad Libitum Lath and Plaster Empty Nest To Get a Word In A Son's Story Scarlet Tanager Beatitude for the Rainy Season Notice on the Door Three Poems of Drought - Old Sunflowers - Wildfires Burn on the Mainland - Homeland Vermeer Effect Loaves and Fishes Piano Practice Yellow Blooms White Flag Travellers East Sooke Solstice Pileated Woodpeckers Gaze Lekwungen Horizon People of the Suburbs, Sleep Twelve Months Smoke Slow Time Distinctions of Mist Witness Recitative Its Own Beauty Acknowledgements
