{"product_id":"a-garden-in-kentucky-poems-paperback-2","title":"A Garden in Kentucky: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Gentry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection Jane Gentry evokes, in images as haunting as the Kentucky landscape, a garden thriving with the flowers of memory, a physical world that reflects a realm of transcendence. In this garden, cosmic harmony reveals itself in the \"ciphers\" of roots and worms, in a piece of blue willow china--\"a blaze of balance, of wholeness\"--that survives a fire in which a lonely, tormented neighbor died. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe white sheets crack in the wind, \u003cbr\u003e fat bellies of sails\u003cbr\u003e sweet as round stomachs of children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStark, lovely, elegiac, gently surreal, Gentry's poems resonate and echo in the vast spaces of the heart; long after being read, lines return, lines like those of the lovely \"In the Moment of My Death (For My Father)\" that beg to be memorized: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the moment of my death\u003cbr\u003e may your old happiness light my way;\u003cbr\u003e and the image of your face\u003cbr\u003e smiling, happy at my coming, \u003cbr\u003e be a lantern in the dark. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe taste of desire, the pang of remembered loss, the sorrow of leaving a house--Jane Gentry has found a way to make these things new. \u003ci\u003eA Garden in Kentucky\u003c\/i\u003e is a place of mystery, terror, beauty, and wonder, a garden to which readers will find themselves retuning again and again.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection Jane Gentry evokes, in images as haunting as the Kentucky landscape, a garden thriving with the flowers of memory, a physical world that reflects a realm of transcendence. Cosmic harmony reveals itself in the \"ciphers\" of roots and worms, in a piece of blue-willow china - \"a blaze of balance, of wholeness\" - that survives a fire in which a lonely, tormented cousin died. Like John Donne and Elizabeth Bishop, Gentry finds beauty, grandeur, and the suggestion of immortality in the smallest, most evanescent of details. A mother's clothes. Scents. Textures. The play of moonlight on rock. The chirp of crickets. A faded tintype of a great-grandfather's dog. The wedding of a drum majorette. A glimpse caught through an open door of a naked woman ironing. A scarecrow. The smell of Bible leather. Laundry drying on a clothesline. Stark, lovely, elegiac, gently surreal, Gentry's poems resonate and echo in the vast spaces of the heart. A Garden in Kentucky is a place of mystery, terror, beauty, and wonder, a garden to which readers will find themselves returning again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Gentry, former poet laureate of Kentucky and professor of English at the University of Kentucky, was the recipient of a Yaddo and two Al Smith fellowships, among other honors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.99 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47582713250013,"sku":"9780807120033","price":22.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/y62qQHG53x9780807120033_0eec4922-c58e-4c7d-b1ec-c23333538783.webp?v=1773583264","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/a-garden-in-kentucky-poems-paperback-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}