| Management number | 232046411 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $8.04 | Model Number | 232046411 | ||
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A Gathered Distance is a sustained and elegant lyric offering, weaving themes of loss and grief with transformation and beauty, which Chris Wallace-Crabbe describes as "a most subtle orchestration of loss". The collection speaks to our shared experiences of connection and separation; the complex dynamics of family and parenthood. In a time of ecological crisis, Mark's work affirms the value of "lyric resistance", poetry's mysterious way of making sense of things: "When profound human emotion can recruit the lyric, the personal can become the human, the particular the archetypal. And a collapse of self can become a gathering of distances, a habitat of healing." - Mark Tredinnick.From the title poem: "...Be a garden in a city, And be all the love you've lost. From all the unpropitious Pieces tending toward a self, cultivate a solitude, harvest halfA life and make it whole. Gather all your distances, and father all your orphan fears; hold them Near, as a father might..." Read more
| ISBN10 | 0995371849 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0995371842 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Birdfish Books |
| Dimensions | 6.5 x 0.3 x 6.5 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Print length | 140 pages |
| Publication date | February 1, 2020 |
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