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Answer to blue
- Title
- Answer to blue / Russell Thornton.
- Author
- Thornton, Russell
- Publication
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-771 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 112 pages : portrait; 23 cm
- Summary
- "A masterful new collection by award-winning poet Russell Thornton. In "Greek Fire," one of the poems in Russell Thornton's astonishing new collection, the central image is of fire burning through water: "water is a bridge / for a fire to come into the world." This image also illuminates the driving force that animates the poems in Answer to Blue. The stillness and quiet depth characteristic of Thornton's poetry are here shot through with an irresistible vitality, a flame of mythic resonance. The past, both ancient and recent, exerts a gravitational pull throughout the collection, with Greek myths, family histories and biblical passages unearthed and examined, forgotten and returned to, giving way in a cyclical rhythm to the transient presence of young children and the death of a parent. With a clarity that pierces through the mist of daily routine, Thornton gives attention to transitional states, pausing at the often rushed-through moments of change, and also examines the phenomenon of perception itself. This collection's response to D.H. Lawrence's question--"Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?"--is both an answer and a challenge, an achievement of beauty that contains the seed of something more enduring and sacred."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-771
- ISBN
- 9781550179675
- 1550179675
- OCLC
- 1259339141
- 1259339141
- Author
- Thornton, Russell, author.
- Title
- Answer to blue / Russell Thornton.
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Thornton, Russell. Answer to blue. Madeira Park, British Columbia : Harbour Publishing, 2021 1550179683 9781550179682 (OCoLC)1259339096
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-771