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Orphan Hours

Poems

Stanley Plumly author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:8th Nov '13

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Orphan Hours is a book of reconciliation, of coming to terms with time in its most personal and memorable manifestations, and of learning the wisdom of what cannot be changed. The urgency of the elegy has been absorbed by an acceptance of the detail, texture, and small moments that constitute and enrich mortality.

from “Lapsed Meadow"

I remember, in Ohio, fields of wastes of nature,
lost pasture, fallow clearings, buckwheat
and fireweed and broken sparrow nests,
especially in the summer, in the fading hilltop sun,
when you could lose yourself by simply lying down.
Who will find you, who will call you home now, at dusk,
with the dry tips of the goldenrod confused
with a little wind, filling in what’s left of the light.

"Plumly is a master of tone. His ‘I’ is not noisy, not flashy, not there to steal the show. The ‘I’ of his poems is intent on seeing something other than the self: bird, sky, tree, leaf. . . . Each poem invites you.”" -- Dallas Morning News
"Not to be missed." -- Library Journal

ISBN: 9780393346626

Dimensions: 211mm x 140mm x 10mm

Weight: 125g

112 pages