Holy Heathen Rhapsody

By Pattiann Rogers

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry An award-winning poet who "writes transporting poems of discovery, contemplation, and gratitude" ( Booklist ) Pattiann Rogers has won acclaim as one of the most original voices in contemporary American poetry. The poems in her new collection, Holy Heathen Rhapsody , embrace and embody the forces of the Earth and the creative power of its lifeforms in all the wildness of their varieties. Love in these poems is a force infused with the same creative power and intensity, the purest manifestation of the will-to-be. This vision and its making contend that even a shadow or a floating seed, a frond of green or a midnight spider, even a mongrel dog, wind over water, the human voice, the human witness, peace and weapons, all--every aspect and feature encountered--are fully endowed players in the dynamic music of the Earth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143123882
• ISBN13: 9780143123880
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher