Orphan Hours: Poems

ISBN: 0393346625

Author: Plumly, Stanley

Condition: New

Combines stateliness, formal beauty and emotional urgency in rich and musical tapestries of language. . . . Every poem . . . is masterful.-Washington PostOrphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail, texture, and small moments that constitute and enrich mortality.from Lapsed Meadow"I remember, in Ohio, fields of wastes of nature,lost pasture, fallow clearings, buckwheatand fireweed and broken sparrow nests,especially in the summer, in the fading hilltop sun,when you could lose yourself by simply lying down.Who will find you, who will call you home now, at dusk,with the dry tips of the goldenrod confusedwith a little wind, filling in whats left of the light.