Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
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- ISBN 9780814346457
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Wayne State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Jack Ridl returns with a collection of poems that mix deft artistic skill with intimate meditations on everyday life, whether that be curiosity, loss, discovery, joy, or the passing of the seasons. An early reader of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch said it best: ""Ridl's books are all treasures, as is he, and his poetry has always been trout-quick, alternately funny and wondrous, instantly intimate, and free of pretense. All these characteristics can be found in this book, and there is something else, something extraordinary: at an age where most poets are content to roll out an imagined posterity, he's decided to push and refine the art, to see out the day and live it fully, because art and life settle for no less."" The first section of Saint Peter and the Goldfinch reflects on the author's personal history, with poems like ""Feeding the Pup in the Early Morning"" and ""Some of What Was Left After Therapy."" The second section continues with meditations on varied events and persons and includes poems such as ""The Last Days of Sam Snead"" and ""Coffee Talks with Con Hilberry."" The third attends primarily to the mystery of love and what one loves and contains the poems ""The Inevitable Sorrow of Potatoes"" and ""Suite for the Long Married."" The fourth and final section meditates primarily on the imagined in poems like ""Over in That Corner, the Puppets"" and ""Meditation on a Photograph of a Man Jumping a Puddle in the Rain.""
Saint Peter and the Goldfinch is the work of a talented and seasoned poet, one whose work comes out of the ""plainspoken"" tradition-the kind of poetry that, as Thomas Lynch puts it, ""has to deliver the goods, has to say something about life, something clear and discernible, or it has little to offer."" Readers of poetry who enjoy wrestling with life's big questions will appreciate the space that Ridl allows for these ruminations.
Saint Peter and the Goldfinch is the work of a talented and seasoned poet, one whose work comes out of the ""plainspoken"" tradition-the kind of poetry that, as Thomas Lynch puts it, ""has to deliver the goods, has to say something about life, something clear and discernible, or it has little to offer."" Readers of poetry who enjoy wrestling with life's big questions will appreciate the space that Ridl allows for these ruminations.
Jack Ridl is author of the poetry collections Broken Symmetry (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Practicing to Walk Like a Heron (Wayne State University Press, 2013), and Losing Season, all of which have won national awards.
