[New-Poetry] 2008 Books of note

[Anny Ballardini]

Congratulations, it is a good poem.

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:36 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> If you don't have many of the previous 6 collections of Linda Gregg's work
> (*Too Bright to See, Alma, The Sacraments of Desire, Chosen by the Lion,
> Things & Flesh, In the Middle Distance*)
> then this pick is practically preordained: *All of it Singing* (Graywolf
> 2008) has a healthy selection of the
> prior books plus a raft of new poems.
>
> Here's one I like. Certainly an echo of James Wright's "A Blessing" to
> it, but moe than that it shows the influence
> of a fellow Californian, Robinson Jeffers--
>  The Weight
>
> Two horses were put together in the same paddock.
> Night and day. In the night and in the day
> wet from heat and the chill of the wind
> on it. Muzzle to water, snorting, head swinging
> and the taste of bay in the shadowed air.
> The dignity of being.=2 0They slept that way,
> knowing each other always.
> Withers quivering for a moment,
> fetlock and the proud rise at the base of the tail,
> width of back. The volume of them, and each other's weight.
> Fences were nothing compared to that.
> People were nothing. They slept standing,
> their throats curved against the other's rump.
> They breathed against each other,
> whinnied and stomped.
> There are things they did that I do not know.
> The privacy of them had a river in it.
> Had our universe in it. And the way
> its border looks back at us with its light.
> This was finally their freedom.
> The freedom an oak tree knows.
> That is built at night by stars.
>
> --Linda Gregg, Chosen by the Lion (Graywolf Press, 1994)
> --
> Finnegan
>
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