Firmament | Lois Marie Harrod

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Firmament

	Firmament Lois Marie Harrod Finishing Line Press, 2007 average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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A chapbook of poems.

Jacket Blurbs

In a good poet*s career, there might be one book that heralds a felicity not as evident in the previous collections, a book that embodies a turn from the adroit to the virtuosic. Firmament is such a book. A long-time fan of Harrod*s work, never before had I felt so giddy with her music, so often moved to admiring silence by her discoveries, so in the presence of such a fine craftsperson. Most of these poems begin confined to a place, but all of them lead the reader to a sense of the capacious within and without.

******BJ Ward

The title of one of Lois Marie Harrod*s poems, *Voltages for Different Locations* captures the geography that is covered in Firmament. At one point she observes, *Don*t get me wrong / I do not think this world can save us / only that these photons have followed / a long narrow passage / to find me here / at this moment.* Like Elizabeth Bishop before her, Harrod creates a landscape lit up by the high voltage of a poetry that wisely reminds us to attend to *that which is the only is.*

*****Christopher Bursk

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