Cape Ann and Beyond the Cut Bridge: Culling and Cart-wheeling

by Sharon R. Chace

Overview

My poems are about places on Cape Ann, in the wider world, and in interior places of mind and heart. I often write poetry about beauty as revelatory of transcendent meanings in nature, community, and intuitions of the divine. The introduction reveals my literary and religious connections to Lucy Larcom, a nineteenth-century writer who is most famous for her book of prose, A New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory and her book of poetry, Wild Roses of Cape Ann. For both my historical soul sister and for me, beauty is sacramental, signaling the Creator in creation. Beauty is beatitude infused. I invite you to contemplate with me. Perhaps our paths will converge. It is my hope that you will discover challenge, comfort, and even joy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630879174
Publisher:	Resource Publications
Publication date:	02/04/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
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About the Author

Sharon R. Chace is the author of Portfolio of Painterly Poems: A Pilgrim's Path to God (2006), An Artistic Approach to New Testament Literature (2008), Protestant Pulse: Heart Hopes for God (2009), My First Introduction to the New Testament (2011), and Images of Light: Ascent to Trust in Triumph (2013). She continues to write poetry and paints comforting images for people in hospice care.
Sharon R. Chace is an older yet intellectually lively writer and artist. She is poet laureate emerita of Rockport, Massachusetts. Her two most recent books are Biblical Poems Embedded in Biblical Narratives (Wipf & Stock, 2020) and Meet Me at the Ice Cream: New and Selected Poems (Resource, 2021). Writing is her best way of contributing to the ongoing discussion of what it means to be religious.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Beauty as Revelation: An Essay of Context xxix

Culling Cape Ann

Angling 3

Hometown Run 4

Situated 5

Tracking 6

A Pet's Passing 7

Kitty 8

Etheree of Time 9

Overcast 10

Writing Life 11

Fulfillment 12

Green Stamp 13

New Englander I Am 15

Deed to the Future 16

Ten Telling Syllables 17

Winter 2008 19

Hearth of Good Will 20

Pitch 21

Rockprot Trio-let 22

Rockport Quatrains 23

Petite Ode to Pigeon Cove 24

Basic Colors 25

Infusion 26

Nor'easter 27

Masked Desire 28

Etheree of Tides 29

Rockport Town Meeting 30

Uncertain Forecast 31

Dumpster Divers 32

Freebie 33

History Lesson 34

Library Trio-Let and Library Trio-Let 2 35

For John Ronan 36

Sky Queens (under Construction) and Sky Queens (constructed) 37

Holy Hopefulness 38

Art Class Sonett 39

Variations on Motif No. 1 40

Poet Reporting 41

Sonnet of Faith 42

Advent Waiting 43

Christmas Tree Sonnet 44

Feeding 45

Glossary of Glory 46

Haiku of Glory 47

Cloudy Beach Day 48

Seven Word Conjuring 49

Dead Whale 50

Summer 51

Legacy of Good Harbor 52

Magnification 53

Sonnet for Sailors 55

Cycle Sonnet and P.S 56

Star Peace 57

Seasoning 58

September Lift 59

Onward and Upward 60

Cart-wheeling Across the Cut Bridge

Cart-Wheeling 63

Albion Haiku 65

Bird Call 66

Horizons 67

Page Turner 68

Well Worn 69

To Walpole with Love 70

A love Trio-let 71

Etheree of Meriden Poetry Society 72

Punctuation 73

Painting Poems 74

A Haiku of Mighty Morning 76

Spring Trio-let 77

Postcart from Michigan 79

Haiku Trilogy 80

Plant Life 81

Found Poem 83

Yosemite in Haiku Notes 84

A Ghazal Celebrating Elder Men 85

Across the Continent 87

Japanese Gardens 88

Painted Hills 89

Blanket of Money Colors 91

East-West Ridges 94

A Cat and a Jesuit 95

Tilt-turn Wundows 96

Winged Warrior 97

Greetings 98

Radiance 99

Butterflies Braiding 100

Epilogue 101

Bibliograph 105