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The Moving Waters

Mary Jane Ryals

4/5 ( ratings)

Florida Big Bend Poet Laureate Mary Jane Ryals' first bound poetry collection, in nine parts, ranges from poems celebrating travels across Western Europe, Mexico, and Vietnam, to poems of life and family set in the sensual, natural world of Florida. "It's said that Jefferson knew the world because he knew better his little plot at Monticello, and the same is true of The Moving Waters, this magnificent atlas that goes everywhere-Spain, France, Mexico, Vietnam-yet begins and ends in the Florida Panhandle, that is to say, in the poet's heart." -David Kirby, National Book Award Finalist, The House on Boulevard Street "Sensual and exotic, Mary Jane Ryals delves into the mythology of ancestry, what we have, what we pass on, what it means to be foreign, even to the self. The Moving Waters has the heft and breadth of a long and stunning career bound in an edition of collected poems, which makes it an especially graceful debut." -Julianna Baggott, Lizzie Borden in Love; Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees

Language: English

Pages: 143

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Kitsune Books

Release: March 10, 2008

ISBN: 0979270049

ISBN 13: 9780979270048

The Moving Waters

Mary Jane Ryals

4/5 ( ratings)

Florida Big Bend Poet Laureate Mary Jane Ryals' first bound poetry collection, in nine parts, ranges from poems celebrating travels across Western Europe, Mexico, and Vietnam, to poems of life and family set in the sensual, natural world of Florida. "It's said that Jefferson knew the world because he knew better his little plot at Monticello, and the same is true of The Moving Waters, this magnificent atlas that goes everywhere-Spain, France, Mexico, Vietnam-yet begins and ends in the Florida Panhandle, that is to say, in the poet's heart." -David Kirby, National Book Award Finalist, The House on Boulevard Street "Sensual and exotic, Mary Jane Ryals delves into the mythology of ancestry, what we have, what we pass on, what it means to be foreign, even to the self. The Moving Waters has the heft and breadth of a long and stunning career bound in an edition of collected poems, which makes it an especially graceful debut." -Julianna Baggott, Lizzie Borden in Love; Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees

Language: English

Pages: 143

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Kitsune Books

Release: March 10, 2008

ISBN: 0979270049

ISBN 13: 9780979270048

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