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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
The late McNeill ( Hill Daughter ) was born in 1911 in rural West Virginia. Her writing career, which spanned 60 years, encompassed poetry and prose. The poems in this collection are composed in an impressive variety of metrical forms, and reflect both her Appalachian roots and technical mastery of rhythm and rhyme. The volume's first section is indebted to the vocabulary of theoretical physics. In the title poem, images of electrons racing through a nuclear accelerator and ghosts of vanished buffalo herds meet in the tragic vortex of American history. Like the metaphysical poets, McNeill spins dazzling metaphors out of scientific fact, as in ``Schroedinger Waves.'' The most moving poems belong to the book's final half, where time, memory and loss are viewed from the promontory of old age; the profound beauty and serene acceptance of mortality in these last works suggest that the poet was writing a coda to her own life. Though there are powerful echoes of Frost, Dickinson, Blake, and others in McNeill's poetry, it's original. (Aug.)
Library Journal
Published posthumously, this strong collection of poems shows a serious appreciation for the earth. Many of the poems deal with or incorporate science in such a way that any reader would reap insights into a theoretical world: "The seething atoms ring the core,/Down burning orbs the photons pour." Metrical and using unforced rhymes, the book's 67 poems include works that sound like little songs: "The waves of wheat are not of wheat;/The waves of grass are not of green;/The waves of ocean where they beat/Are not of water's salty clean." The book has four sections: "Fermi Buffalo," "Myth and History," "Ballads," and "Home and People." The latter section is the strongest, evoking more emotions with which the reader can identify. Yet the four sections work together as a whole. For most libraries.-Lenard D. Moore, United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake Cty., N.C.
Booknews
The final collection of poetry by the late Louise McNeill, West Virginia's Poet Laureate from 1979 until her death in 1993. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780822955283
  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/1994
  • Series: Pitt Poetry Series
  • Pages: 104
  • Product dimensions: 5.56 (w) x 8.54 (h) x 0.35 (d)

Table of Contents

Fermi Buffalo 3
Round 6
Star-Map 7
Neutron Stars 8
A Scientific Experiment: The Construction of a "Martian Box" 9
Composition 10
The Leaf 11
Moment 12
Shroedinger Waves 13
Metabolite 14
Projection to a Space of Lower Order 15
The Octave 16
Generation 17
Amanita 18
Blooded Opals 19
Quadrille of the Naked Contours 20
X Unknown 21
After Hearing a Lecture on Modern Physics 22
Flaming Forth the Worlds 23
Creation 24
Atomic Winter 25
Moonflight - Apollo 26
Of Soothsayers 27
Green Song 28
The Long Traveler 29
Scholastic 31
Earthling 32
The Virus 33
Sea and Land 34
At the Beach 35
Seascape 36
Tumblebug 39
Under Sea - The Unicorn 43
Ballad of Lasha Watson 47
Ballad of the Cur-Dog 51
Ballad of Pete Ellers 52
Old Man Loar 54
Blue and Brown 57
Grace 58
Eden Tree 59
The Two Friends 60
Granny Fanny 61
Couple 62
Granny's Old Ballad 63
Gossip 64
Autumn Song for Maura 65
The Other Moon 66
Cornucopia 67
For the Child Not Named 68
Colloquy 69
Coal Grate Song 71
Journey 72
In October 73
Gracie's Conundrum 74
Mother 75
Reflection Without Color 76
Mother and Son 78
Heartwood 79
The Twins 80
Operation 81
Two 82
Bus Trip 84
Sonnet for the Bicentennial, 1976 85
Winter Evening in a Time of Shortages 86
Here-Now 88
The Sailor 89
Song in the Imperative Mood 90
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