Spring will marry you. A promise Cuckoo brings the message: May. O new clothes O get your house ready Expectation keeps you starry. But at which church and on what day? In these poems Ted Hughes... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is a masterful collection of poems, by a poet working with a subject matter he had mastered and revisited for most of his life: the world of animals, plants and nature. We find here what we would expect: Hughes strong, masculine prose, but peppered with surprises: a calf is "shut up in his hopeful religion" the spring's first flowers are "like firework stubs." In the tumult of a roaring natural world, there are moments of repose. Accompanied by Baskin's paintings and drawings (here, unlike in Cave Birds, light and worn, like a medley of earthy colors) these poems and paintings catch the vital essence of the seasons in motion.
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