A01=Matthew Thorburn
Author_Matthew Thorburn
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city poems
ekphrastic poetry
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human relationships
humanist verse
New York poets
personal reflection
poems about traveling
Product details
- ISBN 9780807170762
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Grace of Distance, his poignant, far-traveling new collection of poems, Matthew Thorburn explores the ways in which we try to close the distances we experience in modern life, between doubt and faith, between cultures, between ourselves and those we love. He seeks to name, and find, that elusive, essential sense of connection humanity hungers for. In one poem, a boy places a bell in the hollow of a tree so someone might find it. In others, an overworked baker wishes for an annunciation of her own, while a man calls down into a well until another voice calls back. Set in China and America, in the present and the distant past, Thorburn's poems examine both Eastern and Western ideas of spirituality, looking closely at the ways we can lose faith, then sometimes find it again. The poems also confront the unbridgeable distances we must live with and the perhaps surprising grace they can provide, a greater sense of perspective, understanding, and peace, even as our lives move in the only direction they can, away from the past.
Matthew Thorburn is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Dear Almost, winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and son.
