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Thin Moon Psalm
Winner of the 2007 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and the 2007 City of Saskatoon Prize and nominated for Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Fierce and delicate poems from a young poet reminiscent of Jane Hirshfield and Jan Zwicky
Rapt, musical, passionately engaged, the poems in Thin Moon Psalm move towards their own inner stillness, while also bearing witness to the power of relatedness -- to family, lovers, and the prairie landscape itself. Many of them are poems of remembrance and deep grieving, recalling in etched details the rigours and joys of life on a prairie farm, and those iconic moments which are alive with the unspoken -- moments between father and daughter, mother and child, sister and sister, lover and lover, poet and friend. Especially they take on the burden of what is lost, knowing "There is always a room we will never return to" and "we return only through the place where we began."
Fierce and delicate poems from a young poet reminiscent of Jane Hirshfield and Jan Zwicky
Rapt, musical, passionately engaged, the poems in Thin Moon Psalm move towards their own inner stillness, while also bearing witness to the power of relatedness -- to family, lovers, and the prairie landscape itself. Many of them are poems of remembrance and deep grieving, recalling in etched details the rigours and joys of life on a prairie farm, and those iconic moments which are alive with the unspoken -- moments between father and daughter, mother and child, sister and sister, lover and lover, poet and friend. Especially they take on the burden of what is lost, knowing "There is always a room we will never return to" and "we return only through the place where we began."
- GenresPoetry
97 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 7, 2007
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May 21, 2021
Beautiful beautiful, as always. :)
July 11, 2014
It is amazing how a small number of words read can bring memories flashing to the mind's eye. Forgotten feelings and emotions - however small - gush back to one's perception by a merely well-crafted phrase. That is what happened to me when I read Sheri Benning's Thin Moon Psalm.
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