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February 27, 2014Emily Wall is a Juneau poet and will be reading selections from this collection this Friday, October 27th, 2012 at the Downtown Library and leading a writing workshop entitled "Eat, Drink: Write: writing about food" on Saturday, October 28th, at the Douglas Library.
I love this book because I love poetry, especially poetry that you don't have to try too hard to understand. Wall's second collection of poems is a heartfelt treat full of moments of simple magic that one is only lucky enough to witness when living aboard a boat, in a sense rooted in water. Her poems are intimate and honest and are steeped in estuary, eddy and the pull this watery world has on our lives.
From "Grace Harbor, Desolation Sound"
"The water around us is a thick carpet
of moon jellies, each little orb pulsing,
rising and falling in the tide swell.
Even though we know better, we can't help
stretching out our hands, reaching down.
Who could resist touching the moon,
if it came down, in its thousand little bodies,
and surrounded us? Sometimes we need
to be chosen. Sometimes, we need for belief
to be out of our hands."
Recommended by Jonas
I love this book because I love poetry, especially poetry that you don't have to try too hard to understand. Wall's second collection of poems is a heartfelt treat full of moments of simple magic that one is only lucky enough to witness when living aboard a boat, in a sense rooted in water. Her poems are intimate and honest and are steeped in estuary, eddy and the pull this watery world has on our lives.
From "Grace Harbor, Desolation Sound"
"The water around us is a thick carpet
of moon jellies, each little orb pulsing,
rising and falling in the tide swell.
Even though we know better, we can't help
stretching out our hands, reaching down.
Who could resist touching the moon,
if it came down, in its thousand little bodies,
and surrounded us? Sometimes we need
to be chosen. Sometimes, we need for belief
to be out of our hands."
Recommended by Jonas
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