Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
In her twelfth collection with LSU Press, Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, Margaret Gibson displays a strong connection to the natural world: gazing, analyzing, considering, and celebrating it. Her lyric poems are powerful and heartfelt meditations, often infused with a sense of loss as well as a yearning to understand and recapture what has been lost.
Synopsis
"I look about and find whatever I see / unfinished," Margaret Gibson writes in these powerful and moving poems, which investigate a late-life genesis. Not Hearing the Wood Thrush grapples with the existential questions that come after experiencing a great personal loss. A number of poems meditate on loneliness and fear; others speak to "No one"--a name richer than prayer or vow." In this transformative new collection, Gibson moves inward, taking surprising, mercurial turns of the imagination, guided by an original and probative intelligence. With a clear eye and an open heart, Gibson writes, "How stark it is to be alive"--and also how glorious, how curious, how intimate.