Arrow Pointing North (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781884800412)

David Dodd Lee's speaker responds to his wife's debilitating illness and the threat it poses to their life together by immersing himself in Nature's dark order: "Late afternoons, in the fall, while the children / Chase each other with their paper horses, / ...the bones of digested songbirds / Thud down / Onto soft green beds, pine needles and moss." His poems combat physical limitations with a heightening of the senses, and the opening of a symbolic realm: "That landscape of spectral forms / We glide through, silently, unable to speak..."

Author: David Dodd Lee
ISBN-10: 1884800416
ISBN-13: 9781884800412
Publisher: Four Way Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2002
Pages: 68
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.22d