To float, to drown, to close up, to open
()
About this ebook
And in that space of summer afternoon, the image born of sound
and light inhabits all her blood and bone, the mind ignites. She sees
the fire – space for her is stage now, theatre is the flame. She sees it
burning all the way back to the Sable River, the lamp, the voices,
the two old people, in the dark,
without wall or roof or post
or beam –
and even as her father buries refuse
in the cellar hole, turns all this under, she
seizes it, picks up her torch,
and runs.
—from the title poem
E. Alex Pierce
E. Alex Pierce, author of Vox Humana, lives in East Sable River, Nova Scotia. She conducts manuscript review workshops throughout Canada, and is Senior Editor at Boularderie Island Press. Pierce holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and for ten years taught Creative Writing at Cape Breton University. Her work has been widely anthologized and published in literary journals. Her most recent publications are Aubade: Poetry and Prose from Nova Scotia Writers (Editor) and Salt and Wild: Shelburne County Anthology (Co-editor).
Related to To float, to drown, to close up, to open
Related ebooks
Little Wildheart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeparation Anxiety Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhosts Still Linger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis is How It is Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSans Fin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLast Hours Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Widening Spell of the Leaves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Artemesia Book: Poems Selected and New Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bad Wife Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Around the Red Land Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost Gospels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingswild horses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKingdom, Phylum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHere Is Where We Disembark Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lake of Two Mountains Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Souwesto Home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne Day Into Another: Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRed Can Origami Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dancehall Years Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Parting Glass: poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPurity of Absence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe New Measures Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFoggy Dog: Poems of the Pacific Coast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrouble in the Diocese Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOrdinary Hours Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dancers Dancing: A powerful coming-of-age novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sixfold Poetry Winter 2017 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelected Poems 1966-1987 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Poetry For You
The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun and Her Flowers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Everything Writing Poetry Book: A Practical Guide To Style, Structure, Form, And Expression Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for To float, to drown, to close up, to open
0 ratings0 reviews