Alma

Literature & Fiction

Gregg, Linda

Poetry

Random House]

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Alma: Poems

Too Bright to See

Graywolf Press,U.S.

The Sacraments of Desire86 pp. 8vo. Love, death and longing are archetypal presences in Gregg's intense, sun-drenched lyrics, which have been compared to archaic Greek poetry. Appropriately enough, the first part of this third verse collection charts a search for self-renewal amid Greek farms and beaches, where the poet seeks out a mysterious She who seems a personification of the Earth and of nature as a feminine power. Reattunement to the everyday world, transcendence through sex, and coming to terms with suffering are principal themes of the rest of this poetic cycle, set in locales ranging from New England to Mexico. Like a Zen Buddhist embracing the constant of change, Gregg is "happy to be painting the river / and dipping my brush in it at the same time."Keywords: POETRY CONTEMPORARY

The Sacraments of Desire

Graywolf Press

Used pbk. in Like New / GIFT QUALITY condition. Cover fine, spine tight, pages clean /unmarked. Ships USPS media mail w/Tracking # provided. Int'l buyers contact seller to confirm shipping details prior to purchase. CL-9272017-7

The Sacraments of Desire: Poems

Chosen by the Lion is Linda Gregg's fourth collection, and her most eloquent, bespeaking a deeply personal reconciliation with the loss of love. Gregg is able to take common experience, to see it clearly, in all its mundane and ordinary complexity. But in her poetry, that experience is also explored in its affinity to the gods, to the ways of nature. The result is an experience that is firmly grounded in the ordinary, yet transformed spiritually.Linda Gregg's other books of poetry include:  Things and Flesh, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, and Too Bright to See.

Chosen by the Lion: Poems

Chosen by the Lion is Linda Gregg's fourth collection, and her most eloquent, bespeaking a deeply personal reconciliation with the loss of love. Gregg is able to take common experience, to see it clearly, in all its mundane and ordinary complexity. But in her poetry, that experience is also explored in its affinity to the gods, to the ways of nature. The result is an experience that is firmly grounded in the ordinary, yet transformed spiritually.
Linda Gregg's other books of poetry include: Things and Flesh, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, and Too Bright to See.

Throughout Things and Flesh, there is a wonderful sense of song, a kind of ringing up and down the scales of being. Here, Linda Gregg engages with the searches and findings of both the intellect and the body. This is poetry beautiful in its attention to the things and flesh of this world, to a life of passionate maturity and substance and the mysteries found within.
Loss is a constant companion in Things and Flesh as the poet explores what lesson can be found in "the way this new silence lasts." What all the poems accomplish is to carry the grief we must all by nature endure. They carry our grief across boundaries, over time, and perhaps even beyond, into what used to be called "salvation"--but which Gregg now indicates is instead the place where poetry is made. the consolations are hard won, but no less triumphant.
Things and Flesh is a collection that again demonstrates how, as Joseph Brodsky said of her earlier work, "The blinding intensity of Ms. Gregg's lines stain the reader's psyche the way lightning or heartbreak do."

Things and Flesh: Poems

Linda Gregg's first two books - Too Bright to See &amp; Alma - are, at long last, available again-this time in a single volume. In this book, we witness the awakening of one of the finest American poets of her generation.

Too Bright to See / Alma: Poems

Graywolf

A new and resplendent collection by Linda Gregg, whose poems "have the elegance of Greek statuary and the good-humored poise of haiku" (Poetry)
I finally fell in love with all of it: dirt, silence, rock and far views. It's strange that my heart is as full now as my desire was then. ―from "Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing"
In one poem in this emotional and spiritual collection, Linda Gregg asks, "It is clear why love / took me to the shore of death, / but why did it bring me back?" In the Middle Distance, Gregg's sixth book, explores up to and beyond the crossroads of devastation and desire. There, she finds not only survival but also salvation―hard-won, resilient, and meaningful.
This collection brings Gregg's passion and intensity together with a new wisdom and vitality that is unmistakably original.

In the Middle Distance: Poems

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Alma

Alma: Poems

Too Bright to See

The Sacraments of Desire

The Sacraments of Desire: Poems

Chosen by the Lion: Poems

Chosen by the Lion: Poems

Things and Flesh: Poems

Too Bright to See / Alma: Poems

In the Middle Distance: Poems