Horses and the Human Soul

By Judith Barrington

Praise for History and Geography: "Barrington's history, like Lowell's, is intensely personal; her geography, like Bishop's, extracts the familiar from the exotic and the exotic from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586540408
• ISBN13: 9781586540401
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Story Line Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Barrington at her best

This is the poet's third book of poems and marks a big leap forward in confidence, grasp of form, and weight of subject matter. She is sometimes funny, often wise, and the poems are elegant, some in traditional forms, others merely musical. There is a notable work about New York's twin towers ("AfterImage") written in old accentual verse, which, in its true form, falls into two columns remarkably like the towers themselves. There are a few political poems, transforming righteous indignation into poetry, and many poems rooted in the natural world and focusing on animals. The horses of the title appear even in poems not directly about them. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers including those normally wary of poetry. It is both accessible and a good read.