I Was Thinking of Beauty

by Sydney Lea

Overview

It's been said about Lea that “this extraordinary poet finds an elegance and beauty that can be glimpsed throughout his often harsh landscape.” This new collection evidences that skill. Here the natural world coexists with the poet’s boundless intellect. Lea’s keen narrative eye keeps us fully in the present as he reminisces on the past—which Lea unravels, chisels away at in search of a deeper understanding—so vivid it could be our own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935536314
Publisher:	Four Way Books
Publication date:	04/09/2013
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Vermont Poet Laureate SYDNEY LEA’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at Dartmouth, Wesleyan, Vermont College, among others.

Table of Contents

Metaphor • Peaceable Kingdom • House of Women • Dead Farms • You Listen to Dexter Gordon • Farmall Cub Tractor • The Vanishing • You of the Mottoes • Blind, Dumb • Art • Winter Poet • Abattoir Time • Ars Vitae • Teacher at Cloudland Falls • Small Jeremiad • The Gray Museum • Hum and Click • Father’s Blues • Bald Sentiment • The Turning • The Picture • To a Young Father • Impossibilities: Wild Landscape With Children • Fathomless • Plain Fact • Thaw • Idiot Moon • Too Early for Grackles • Not Like Silvio • Unnaming • I Was Thinking of Beauty • Sober • Mahayana in Vermont

What People are Saying About This

Carl Dennis

“The poems…often grow out of reminiscence, but they are poems without nostalgia, in which the harsh has equal billing with the beautiful, in which memories are approached not as sources of grand revelation but as nodes of vitality…”