So Close

By Peggy Penn

Book Overview

Writing with deceptively straightforward language, and finding much of her imagery in the equally deceptive simplicity of nature, Peggy Penn recalls those moments that can shape or shatter our... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967885647
• ISBN13: 9780967885643
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: CavanKerry Press
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Human relationships and the symbiosis of body and spirit

The poetry of Peggy Penn focuses on human relationships and the symbiosis of body and spirit. An impressive and accomplished poet, So Close is Penn's debut anthology and will well serve to introduce her special style and poetic abilities to an appreciative reading public. Drought: The week you leave, the drought is record high:/water lilies crawl to shore, gagging/on the pale mud, their luminous centers/closed. Black pansies crisp in this fire:/I think of snow and close the windows./Opposites attract, as we did. I weigh/my bosoms in my hands, and even they/seem stale balloons. Perhaps constancy/is too hard to bear, or age prepares/us badly for surprise. Or, in the hot/doubt of rage, love dries; folds its tent against/the storm and womb-like waits for it to pass./Why are you surprised? This is how we last.