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The Grace of Distance: Poems

by Matthew Thorburn
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780807170762
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: LSU Press
  • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press
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  • Pages: 72
  • Original Price: USD 20.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 118 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

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"Matthew Thorburn's considerable poetic gifts bring the actual world joyfully alive in these poems. But this isn't simple joy; it's joy in conversation with the mounting losses and complexities of middle age. 'I can't remember, ' he writes, 'if I've only just arrived / or it's time for me to go.' In his ekphrastic poem about The Girl with a Pearl Earring (painted in Vermeer's middle age), Thorburn writes, 'Vermeer did // what we all want to do: make time stop / so we can see.' And that is what this book succeeds, beautifully, in doing--stopping time so we can see."--Leslie Harrison, author of The Book of Endings, a finalist for the National Book Award

"Matthew Thorburn's book The Grace of Distance celebrates the quiet moments that pass between people. He writes, '[A] phrase--that's all I'm after... / that catches the quiet hopefulness / of such careful documenting.' Like Vermeer's paintings, Thorburn's graceful poems reach across the distance that divides us all to say, 'We were here. This is what life was like once. / Not bad.' In our age of crisis, this is news that will stay news."
--Tomás Q. Morín, author of Patient Zero

"In his elegant new collection of poems, The Grace of Distance, Matthew Thorburn mines the lyric possibilities of mid-life in loss and love and aliveness. Curiosity fuels insight in keen observations like: 'Did you know one pharaoh / had his heart wrapped in cloth / and placed in a little wooden box / when he died? Who wouldn't / sometimes wish to set your heart / aside and close that lid?' This poet's lyric distances are dreamy and worldly, wise and full of surprises."--Elaine Sexton, author of Prospect/Refuge

Haymon, Ava Leavell: - Ava Leavell Haymon is the author of the poetry collections Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, Kitchen Heat, and The Strict Economy of Fire. She teaches poetry writing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and directs a writers' retreat center in the mountains of New Mexico.

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