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Musing

Jonathan Locke Hart author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:AU Press

Published:1st Apr '11

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Poems that touch and stir the heart through all its levels.

Musing is a book of sonnets, combining one of poetry’s most classic forms with history and landscape.

Musing is a book of sonnets. Working within the frameworkof a classic poetic form, Jonathan Locke Hart embarks on an extendedmeditation on our rootedness in landscape and in the past. As sonnets,some of the poems are traditional, some innovative. Throughout, Hartdeftly imparts a European poetic flavour to a fundamentally NorthAmerican experience.

The collection opens with a foreword by noted literary scholarGordon Teskey, who reflects on the themes that have marked theevolution of Hart’s poetry. Of Musings, Teskey writes:"These deeply thoughtful poems bring layered historicalconsciousness into the sonnet. They also touch and stir the heartthrough all its levels."

ISBN: 9781897425909

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 200g

128 pages