Magpie Words

by Richard Caddel

Poetry "To read Richard Caddel's life of the poem - MAGPIE WORDS - is to relearn why poetry still matters. His writing cleanses our shared language of its inherited toxicity. Each notebook jotting is placed with an eye to new coherence as if his poems were carpentered together from rescued fragments of almost-lost speech.There is no smooth finality. His poems ask us to stop - in our headlong rush forward - to read and re-read our lives with critical attention"-Kathleen Frazer "I love this poet's particularity, his quiet persistence, the care he offers the world and everything in it/ Whatever is human is blest by his being one too"-Robert Creely.

182 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was so excited to get this book in the mail at school that I stopped class and told the kids to tell me a number and I would read them the poem at that page--although I think that says more about how I feel about work, than how I feel about this book, since at that point, I hadn't read any of these poems.