The Pale Cast of Thought

by Marion H. Flanigan

Overview

In The Pale Cast of Thought, reflecting on the uncertainties of life often leads to moments of vision. This lifelong collection of verse shows how poetry can be used to come to terms with it all. There is a great variety in both form and content: Love poems, terse, radiant lyrics, narratives, fresh religious insights and meditations on nature. An eulogy for a friend who died young captures a bygone era (the optimistic period following World War II) like a mini-novel. Not only sorrow and anxiety but joy, praise, gratitude, and always the beauty and awe of nature are lovingly evoked. The author was persistent through the years in gathering up and preserving the diverse epiphanies of her inner experience.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161531808
Publisher:	Covenant Books
Publication date:	08/20/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marion Hoyt Flanigan was born in Stamford, CT, on December 13, 1926. Her mother, Marion Rowland, from Beacon, NY died in childbirth. She grew up in North Stamford, where her ancestors had lived since the 17th century. She received her college degree from St. Joseph College (now University) in West Hartford and continued her education at Columbia University, writing a brilliant master’s thesis on John Donne and the Comic Spirit, and graduating with a First. After her marriage to Paul Flanigan in 1952, she became a homemaker and mother, raising three children, Martha, Ruth and Thomas mainly in Swansea, MA. When the children were growing and in school, she began a 20-year stint as a newspaper reporter in Fall River, MA. Her marriage lasted 60 years, until her death on March 5th, 2013. Shortly before that her son, Thomas, and English professor at Miami University in Ohio, collected and edited her poems.