Navigable Waterways

by Pamela Alexander

Poems consider Amelia Earhart, tea, photography, fiction, nature, love, spring, death, music, and myth

Genres: Poetry

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First published May 1, 1985

Reviews

[Sandra]

This poet writes with empathy for place and for other beings; she is able to put herself aside, and use language sparingly yet richly to weave images with a slim silver thread that brings our consciousness in and out of structured distances, like a plane flying in and out of clouds. I feel the poet is closest to us in her Amelia Earhart poems, where we sense her restless to span the earth, to linger here or there, but soon wanting to move on. "The Way Down" expresses in simple, poignant terms a willingness, like Earhart's, to risk the journey.

[Rosa Jamali]

For many many times I read this collection of poetry and I really enjoyed it. Pamela Alexander's poetry seems quite appealing to me , her poems sound language-based at first but when you go deep through the poems you see a sophisticated language twisted into a net of imagery and infrastructured in harmony and what makes her special is her insight and she's been inspired by all the possible mysteries found in the nature!

[Ron Mohring]

An archived copy of the text is housed online at CAPA (the Contemporary American Poetry Archives): http://capa.conncoll.edu/alexander.wa...