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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-421-5
Pages: 256
Publish Date: Dec, 2005
Genre: Poetry
Firekeeper
Selected Poems
BY Pattiann Rogers
Pattiann Rogers has built a reputation as one of America’s finest contemporary poets. Her writing—with its firm roots in science and the natural world—has been compared to Emerson and Whitman. She has written about motherhood, art, science, spirituality, and the tension between humanity and wildness. Firekeeper presents the best work from Rogers’s thirty-year career in one powerfully compact book, including such favorite poems as “Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird,” “The Hummingbird: A Seduction,” “Animals and People: ‘The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself,’” and “Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew.” This new edition reflects the poet’s own selection from her work and has been expanded to include poems from her five books published since Firekeeper was first released in 1994.
OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR:
The Dream of the Marsh Wren
In this work of prose punctuated and intensified by poetry, award-winning poet, Rogers, describes the genesis of her most admired verse and reveals how and why she writes.
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The Dream of the Marsh Wren
In this work of prose punctuated and intensified by poetry, award-winning poet, Rogers, describes the genesis of her most admired verse and reveals how and why she writes.
Read more ›
“While Rogers's vision is firmly rooted in nature, it would be reductive to call her a nature poet; her poems are gestures of a spirit that experiences the act of observation as religious, a ritual as vital as eating or drawing breath.”
—Leslie Ullman, Poetry“If you don't read poetry, read Pattiann Rogers —and then you will.... I love these sparkling, burrowing poems. They know no border between eroticism and death, sheer whimsy and utter gravity, the translucent spirit and the naked body, the sky and the everloving soil.”
—Robert Michael Pyle“If angels were to agree upon a language to describe creation, a tone of voice and a point of view that would adequately celebrate the divine, these would be the poems they would write.... If this is not poetry in service to humanity, I do not know what is.”
—Barry Lopez“Is it unkind to say that Pattiann Rogers knows as much about science as any living poet? Call the assertion the highest praise. Is she our most humane poet? I'll risk it. Has she created a complex natural theology or our mortal days and nights, avisible mythology? Yes. Yes, she has. This book is the work of a major poet.”
—James Whitehead"These musical, lushly rhythmic lines show well the deep connection between the erotic and the holy that Rogers explores in many of these fine new poems.”
—Susan Carlisle, Harvard Review
