The Rain Barrel by Ormsby, Frank

The Rain Barrel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781930630895)

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The Rain Barrel by Ormsby, Frank

The Rain Barrel

$13.95
The Rain Barrel by Ormsby, Frank

The Rain Barrel

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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Frank Ormsby's enchanting new volume, The Rain Barrel, allows us to see with eyes "still wet from the Creation." He is a "local fire-god with a tongue of flowers." His sense of the folkloric and country life in general is self-assured and true, but he also writes with flair and insight on such subjects as art and artists. He has mastered the Haiku, the erotic poem, and, throughout his storied career, the wistful but unsentimental elegy: "The whole season has come to this: / a holding on so that the letting go / might seem to us like chance." The title sequence ties these themes together in a meditation on the object, its uses and symbols, until in the last poem of the sequence he reflects on how like the barrel we are, fulfilling our roles as we deteriorate beyond repair.

Author: Frank Ormsby
ISBN-10: 1930630891
ISBN-13: 9781930630895
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/17/2020 pg. 177
By Frank Ormsby
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Frank Ormsby's published volumes include Ripe for Company (1971), A Store of Candles (1977), A Northern Spring (1986), The Ghost Train (1995), Fireflies (2009), Goat's Milk: New and Selected Poems (2015), and The Darkness of Snow (2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards. He currently co-edits the poetry journal The Yellow Nib, and is serving as the Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2019-2021.

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