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SCAVENGING THE COUNTRY FOR A HEARTBEAT: Poems
SCAVENGING THE COUNTRY FOR A HEARTBEAT: Poems
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“This is a poetry that can accommodate huge distances: prairie landscapes, the lush silences of the Atchafalaya swamp, the peculiarly American loneliness of a Midwestern campground by the side of the interstate . . . The pleasure of these poems is that their music both delineates and bridges the distances they evoke.” -- Mark Doty
“There is a solid maturity about these poems that belies the fact that this is a first book. Shepard is, in fact, solidly mature, both in person and in craft. . . His special gift is the expansive narrative of image, a sort of hybrid of true narrative with emotionally crisp, almost lyric snapshots. There is both a pleasing directness and a pleasant musicality about Shepard's work.” -- Booklist
Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat takes readers on a journey from the Maine coast to the Pacific Northwest, from Vermont to the Florida Keys, from the Louisiana swamps to the plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Guided by his belief that “what is missing/makes memory whole,” Neil Shepard revisits landscapes marred by conflict and compromise. What he discovers is solace and the possibility of transcendence. As a collection these poems detail an emotional evolution – a spiritual transformation – in which progress is measured in “the distances still stretching away.”
“There is a solid maturity about these poems that belies the fact that this is a first book. Shepard is, in fact, solidly mature, both in person and in craft. . . His special gift is the expansive narrative of image, a sort of hybrid of true narrative with emotionally crisp, almost lyric snapshots. There is both a pleasing directness and a pleasant musicality about Shepard's work.” -- Booklist
Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat takes readers on a journey from the Maine coast to the Pacific Northwest, from Vermont to the Florida Keys, from the Louisiana swamps to the plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Guided by his belief that “what is missing/makes memory whole,” Neil Shepard revisits landscapes marred by conflict and compromise. What he discovers is solace and the possibility of transcendence. As a collection these poems detail an emotional evolution – a spiritual transformation – in which progress is measured in “the distances still stretching away.”
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