American Analects: Poems

American Analects: Poems image
ISBN-10:

0892555920

ISBN-13:

9780892555925

Author(s): YOUNG, GARY
Released: Jul 02, 2024
Publisher: Persea
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
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Description:

American Analects uses the Analects of Confucius as an inspiration to mediate upon the life, death, and the subsequent loss of the poet's influential, beloved mentor--the painter Gene Holtan. These poems are juxtaposed with poems about other losses--of parents, of friends and friends of friends. Some of these deaths were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, others by age and the inescapable journey we all take. Still, this is not a dour book. Many poems celebrate our ability to inspire, to comfort, and to nurture one another, and the collection is leavened with poems about family, about poetry, and about the healing influence of landscape and of nature. In the end, American Analects is about resiliency, about moving on from personal loss, from the pandemic, and from catastrophic fires, to rejoice in what remains. These poems encourage us to acknowledge the fragility of our lives and of those we love, while we celebrate those who guide us, even in memory. 












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