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Treading Fast Rivers

Eleonore Schönmaier

出版	McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1999
主題	Poetry / GeneralPOETRY / American / General
ISBN	08862936189780886293611
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-hzRFi-NJl4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

When Fireflies Write Love Letters
We Step
carefully, for the smallest lights capture
us most securely –
the fireflies held
low by the winds
all along the coastal barrens.
If we were to trap
affection in a shell
it would fail
to flicker
but along this vast cliff-edge
we could read love
letters
by the phosphorescence –
if words were equal
to the trail of stars,
the strewn
lights of hard-winged beetles.
This collection of linked poems takes us on a journey where angels ride bicycles, wounds both grieve and heal, and "our will / diving through the shuddering / wet world, carries us." Resonant with "a longing so ardent and spacious," these are poems of place and displacement, sickness and health. A poet of striking maturity, Eleonore Schönmaier writes of icy depths and serene pools with equal ease. Unflinching when charting the terrains of human nature and the natural wilderness, she travels to such far-flung landscapes as Crete and Portugal, and the watery depths of the Sargasso Sea. Closer to home she looks beneath the surface of Northern mining communities and explores an abandoned lighthouse on the Atlantic coast.
Eleonore Schönmaier is a writer living in Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia.