by
Deena Linett
New Poets of America
Series
Rare Earths marks the poetry debut of prize-winning novelist
Deena Linett. In narrative and lyric poems, the collection displays
the range of the poet’s art as she considers time and love,
the movement of mind and—ultimately—loss. Book I of
Rare Earths is an intriguing and suspenseful story in verse. Mairi
MacIntyre, a young architect, travels to the desolate North Atlantic
island of St. Kilda, 110 miles off the coast of Scotland. In journal
excerpts and letters to her husband and mother—discovered
after Mairi’s death—she comes to terms with her own
longings and inner life and her ties to the women who once inhabited
the island. Complementing Book I—and adding to the many
mysteries in Rare Earths—are the lyric poems in Book II
by “the American,” an anonymous poet who was present
on the dig with Mairi McIntyre.
Eventually They Come Ashore
the
living and the dead
whether
you wait for them or not.
There
are so many more
of
the dead, and the living
drown
on stony ground in grief
and
anger, and the sea
does
not care. We care
for
it so deeply, need it
so
we cannot comprehend
its
treachery. We think
it
must be part of Mind
and
would not so mistreat us
but
it closes its blue eyes,
a shunning,
so defeats us.
©
BOA Editions, Ltd 2001
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-99-3
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 2001
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