Synopses & Reviews
The poems in Night Mowing find their influence in the natural and the erotic; the biblical and the classical; the aesthetic and the spiritual. The landscape exists as both an ecstatic source of inspiration and as an endangered garden, and the narrator of these poems moves through that landscape in admiration and anguish: trying to preserve his joyful innocence while fully aware of the transience of all that he sees. Each poem in its specifics, whether focusing on a lover, a mountain, a dog, or a critic, wrestles with the universal and sacred, revealing the instinct of the poems to move toward purity and deep feeling even in dark times.
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"Here is a poet with a truly extraordinary verbal imagination. His poems begin in the commonplace and rise or soar, leap, swell to the climactic surreal in a few lines." Hayden Carruth
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"Chard deNiord sees daily life in terms of eternity and interprets it in a modern rendition of the language of the Biblical psalmist....The result is terrific poetry." Andrew Hudgins
Synopsis
These poems find their influence in the natural and the erotic; the biblical and the classical; the aesthetic and the spiritual. Each poem in its specifies, whether focusing on a lover, a mountain, a dog, or a critic, wrestles with the universal and sacred, revealing the instinct to move toward purity and deep feeling even in dark times.These poems find their influence in the natural and the erotic; the biblical and the classical; the aesthetic and the spiritual. Each poem in its specifies, whether focusing on a lover, a mountain, a dog, or a critic, wrestles with the universal and sacred, revealing the instinct to move toward purity and deep feeling even in dark times.
Synopsis
Influenced by the natural, the classical, and the biblical, these poems wrestle with the universal and the sacred, revealing an urge to move toward purity and deep feeling even in dark times.
About the Author
Chard deNiord is associate professor of English at Providence College and director of the New England College MFA program. He is the author of five books of poetry, including Asleep in the Fire and Sharp Golden Thorn.