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I find myself taken by Patricia Kirkpatricks unsentimental tendernessa mark, I believe, of all good lyric poetry.Jane Hirshfield The poems in Centurys Road travel the plain public road of American daily life while glimpsing the humanity of other continents. At the center of the book is the figure of the child as witness, whether newborn or newly immigrated, abandoned or unplanned, learning to read, or telling stories. In a voice combining a clear sense of image and sound, these poems stand in a lyric tradition yet address issuesand mysteriesbeyond the personal. The poet pursues the life of the imagination and subjects of birth and death; the natural world; family, community and womanhood; and sometimes touching the legacy of World War II, Vietnam and September 11th. from Centurys Road : In the middle of the century, I stood watching flickering reels of people flee the burning city. A child stood sobbing at the edge of the road, holding her arms out but nobody stopped to take her. Nobody stopped. Thundering passage thundering past. The black and white footage of war. The hard cart of migration over stone. Patricia Kirkpatrick grew up in Des Moines and graduated from the University o

Author

Patricia Kirkpatrick

Publisher

Duluth, Minn.: Holy Cow! Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780930100124

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities