A01=Michael Chitwood
Author_Michael Chitwood
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- ISBN 9780807132241
- Weight: 118g
- Dimensions: 152 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The threshold- the moment when a situation or a person is transformed into something new, for either good or ill- is the central image of From Whence. In many of these lyric poems, the moment of change either is in sharp focus or is exerting its gravitational pull on the poem. It could be the instant when a rock being held up on a frozen pond melts through and makes its plunge, or that dizzying moment when a child realizes that his childhood is over forever. It is leaving a church revival, finding snow outside, and seeing that ""Each flake, each one individual we knew, / disappeared into all the others / and made a place for the moonlight to rest."" In these moments are loss and newfound joy.
Michael Chitwood is the author of six previous poetry collections, including The Weave Room, Salt Works, and Whet, and the essay collections Hitting Below the Bible Belt and Finishing Touches. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a regular commentator for WUNC-FM.
