{"product_id":"moving-in-memory-poems-9780807113882","title":"Moving in Memory: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julia Randall\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoving in Memory, \u003c\/i\u003e Julia Randall's sixth volume of poems, explores our relationship to nature, to art, and to our past selves. In these poems, Randall's familiar terrain--the woods, streams, and fields of Maryland--becomes our own. She takes us \"through the fields\/ of Queen Anne's Lace and clover,\" through woods filled with rock maple and sassafras, to places she discovered as a child. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI am Piedmont born and bred\u003cbr\u003e between far hills and sea, \u003cbr\u003e great hardwoods overhead, \u003cbr\u003e and waters gently\u003cbr\u003e falling down the Bay \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut these poems also express Randall's uneasiness with trying to exist in a world increasingly divorced from nature. They spring from a sensibility that pits memory and its recovery in art against the encroachments of commerce and technology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat shall restore\u003cbr\u003e cedar and sycamore, sweet springs, \u003cbr\u003e the secrets of the forest floor, where now\u003cbr\u003e backhoes and scaffoldings \u003cbr\u003e and gray computers set us free\u003cbr\u003e to manufacture loves and lifeless things \u003cbr\u003e along the steely groves where no bird \u003cbr\u003e sings? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnmistakably a lyric poet, Randall varies traditional forms in a way that is both reminiscent and original. Her musicality often surprises us into the recognition that poems can still sound like poems. In writing about place, memory, aging, and loss, Julia Randall displays a wide-ranging intelligence, a keen eye, and a necessary anger, as well as joy, humor, and acceptance.","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115745763479,"sku":"9780807113882","price":1361.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807113882.webp?v=1767271020","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/moving-in-memory-poems-9780807113882","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}