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Ordinary people seek connections to the natural world and each other in the poems of The Heronry, a collection that presents a series of spiritual encounters in the form of praise poems, lyric portraiture, and meditations on faith and belief.
Mark Jarman is the author of ten poetry collections. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Price: $14.95
Pages: 88
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Publication Date:
10 January 2017
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781941411353
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, NATURE / Ecology, RELIGION / Spirituality, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation
“With precision and tenderness, Jarman explores the sinew and soul of humankind.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[A]n invaluably unique poetic personality.”
—Booklist, starred review
"This year, I've read the poetry of Mark Jarman . . . with gratitude.”
—Christian Century
“The myriad gifts of this gathering of poems confirm that Jarman is one of America’s most distinct and important voices, and prove that it is possible to sustain an original style over a long career (in Jarman’s case, an understated, wry, perspicacious, darkly complicated and formal engagement with belief and unbelief) while avoiding self-parody of a falling off of vision.”
—Image
“I admire the way Mark Jarman’s poetry worries spiritual concerns while remaining rooted in the everyday.”
—Library Journal
“Following the development of Jarman’s poetry and his uncompromising vision of poetry—making as sacred work—our contributor, Michelle Boisseau, found herself amazed again and again at how the unaffected discipline of Jarman’s craft helps him plumb the reaches of human experience. One of the most moving and exhilarating experiences she had this year reading poetry.”
—Kansas City Star
“Mark Jarman is good, one of the most thoughtful and adroit poets writing these days, a man with handsome ambitions.”
—The Georgia Review
“Focusing on questions of faith and the loss of faith, he is able to enter with a quiet, unjudging sympathy into the conflicts of a wide variety of perspectives, presenting their denials and affirmations as the testimony of what it means to be spiritually alive. The poems enact an openness that is particularly welcome in a time like ours of strident contention.”
—Carl Dennis, author of Practical Gods
“Mark Jarman has exerted a significant influence on contemporary American poetry.”
—The Poetry Foundation
“[Jarman's] ear and the precision of his language, as well as the range of human experience he can bring into focus, continually quicken one's interest in the poems. . . . These reflections on mortality, faith, belief, and love can make for lively, provoking reading.”
—Bookslut
Mark Jarman is the author of 10 previous books of poetry and several collections of essays and reviews. His awards and honors include the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award, the Poets' Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Balcones Poetry Prize, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
The Heronry
Ruby Throated Moses
Cul de Sac Idyll
Bat
Catch and Release
Eocene Beech Leaf
Then Saw the Problem
The Kestrel
Expected
Spell for Encanto Creek
Outward Bound
The Heronry
Believers, Unbelievers
Reverend “Rev” Rebenek
Betsy Moore
Aunt Rolla
Passed On
Mr. Jackson
Meg Stanley
Brightlingen
That Teenager Who Prowled Old Books
Confession
In a Bookstore in Hay-on-Wye
Bad Girl Singing
George W. Bush
Wenlock Carston
Mickey Lucas
The Istanbul Album
Another Field
Dünya Ahiretin Tarlasidir
Friends and Wolves
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Walking on Water
Bulgarian Icon of The Last Supper
The Teachable Moment
Milagro
Two Islands
Corsica
Santorini
Boy with a Buttercup
Prosím
Mothering Sunday
Tiel Burn
Polska Street
Ruby Throated Moses
Cul de Sac Idyll
Bat
Catch and Release
Eocene Beech Leaf
Then Saw the Problem
The Kestrel
Expected
Spell for Encanto Creek
Outward Bound
The Heronry
Believers, Unbelievers
Reverend “Rev” Rebenek
Betsy Moore
Aunt Rolla
Passed On
Mr. Jackson
Meg Stanley
Brightlingen
That Teenager Who Prowled Old Books
Confession
In a Bookstore in Hay-on-Wye
Bad Girl Singing
George W. Bush
Wenlock Carston
Mickey Lucas
The Istanbul Album
Another Field
Dünya Ahiretin Tarlasidir
Friends and Wolves
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Walking on Water
Bulgarian Icon of The Last Supper
The Teachable Moment
Milagro
Two Islands
Corsica
Santorini
Boy with a Buttercup
Prosím
Mothering Sunday
Tiel Burn
Polska Street