Synopses & Reviews
Pamela Stewart casts her spell in these sharply seen, sometimes dreamlike poems inhabited by worlds of worms, birds, mosses, and stones where 'shoes have tongues and rise,' one tastes 'an eighth-note of smoke,' and 'dogs run silently through dry grass.' Dangers of fire, sickness, war erupt but the poet acknowledges song, and the 'mucking out,' the 'sorting of fleece' in the seasonal pull of farm life. Nature's return of 'grief with its scrabble of hope at the root' is given its due. This is a luminous book exactly and generously orchestrated. I salute it.
Synopsis
This is a short collection of poems by one of America's fine and widely published poets. It describes her close connection to nature and the land, her love of her animals, her relationship with the Tibetan Buddhists who live and work with her. She brilliantly and honestly tells of love and tragedy, of great gain and great loss.
Synopsis
Poetry. These are poems about living close to nature on a remote farm, accompanied by large animals, Tibetan Buddhists, and a spouse. The book focuses on relationships--spiritual as well as physical, with nature as well as with other humans. "It's wonderful to have new poems by Jody Stewart, deeply internal and intensely lyrical, while at the same time stitched with the thread of myth, storytelling and country lore. These are sensuous, wise, and consoling poems"--Tony Hoagland.
About the Author
Pamela (Jody) Stewart has published several chapbooks and five full-length volumes of poetry, the most recent being The Red Window (University of Georgia Press, 1997). Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies including Dog Music, New York: Poems and two Pushcart Prizes. A Guggenheim Fellowship took her to Cornwall in the U.K. where she lived for seven years. She's happily ended up on a farm in Hawley, Massachusetts.