Naming the Wind by Steven Rood (English) Paperback Book

Description: Naming the Wind by Steven Rood "Wind moves through this book. Wind opens the poems: to the dying beauty of the natural world; to the weathers inside the psyche and without; to the connections between father and son, husband and wife, the speaker to his mentor, the great poet Jack Gilbert"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Poems that navigate the complexities of human relationships, personal ethics, and religious tradition. Wind moves through this collection, opening the poems to the dying beauty of the natural world, to the weathers inside the psyche and without, and to the connections between a family and between the speaker his mentor, the great poet Jack Gilbert. The collection navigates the intimacies of human relationships with others, the challenges of working as a lawyer trying to maintain integrity as others fall prey to corporate greed, and the complexity of holding a Jewish identity while being awake to traditions hold on the mind and its cost. Steven Rood offers a powerful account of how to be a human in dynamic relationships while also holding respect for the non-human beings that comprise most of the life on our planet. Rood employs structures and forms that directly relate to the content of the poems themselves. Spontaneous breaks and starts reflect the writers turns of mind, offering readers insight into the meaning and measure of the work. Author Biography Steven Rood was born in Los Angeles and is a practicing trial lawyer in Berkeley, CA. His manuscript was a 2019 National Poetry Series Finalist, and his poems appear in Periodicities, Sporklet, Quarterly West, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Fugue, Lyric, Haydens Ferry Review, Tar River Poetry, New Letters, Marlboro Review, Atlanta Review, Southern Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. Review "In Steven Roods brave and lyrical debut collection, Naming the Wind, the quixotic project of naming the wind is a metaphor for how we struggle to make sense of what is beyond our control. This is the work of a mature poet, one who makes the details of everyday life luminous and gives meaning to suffering while offering a glimpse of the sublime." * Colorado Review *"Tender, curious, yearning, and full of astonishment, Roods poems reside in the wondrous entanglement of place and self, present and past, body and mystery. Roods poetry bears the marks of a life lived, of experience understood, just as his intimately observed California landscapes bear traces of geologic time. Insight awaits here, as a cache of harder, ocean-smoothed pebbles emerges shining from a spine of soft sandstone on Mount Diablo. Of such a pebble, Rood writes: It is where art lives, and I can rub it in my palms. His poems, too, are where art lives. This book is a force of tenderness, a visitation of wisdom." -- Liza Flum, Francois Camoin Fellow, University of Utah"Late in this ranging and wild book, this Naming the Wind, Rood offers—this in response to an older poets challenge—I have power, depth, fear/ as my tones, and uncertainty as my shape. And the beauty and the multiplicity of uncertainties—that call, that calling forth—is what this book stakes its being on; and partnered to that is the acknowledgment, throughout these pages, of the profound power of intervals, of how sounds suspended until a silence glows around it. But I would be remiss if I failed to note how the books populated too with visitations (sightings and sittings) and that its praises include, among others, dybbuks, Dinobots, the ten or fifteen turkeys eating quietly amid the/ wild oats of Twin Peaks, as though—rising or not rising off these pages—they were the storied wild birds of heaven; and other locations named into being, places equally unlikely—Weedlot Ive kept my eye on for thirty years, e.g.—as well as the tantalizing possibility of a walk off the path into Hallelujah. Steven Rood writes, Maybe Ill turn to dust and befriend the wind. Read this book." -- C. S. Giscombe, author of Ohio Railroads Review Quote "Tender, curious, yearning, and full of astonishment, Roods poems reside in the wondrous entanglement of place and self, present and past, body and mystery. Roods poetry bears the marks of a life lived, of experience understood, just as his intimately observed California landscapes bear traces of geologic time. Insight awaits here, as a cache of harder, ocean-smoothed pebbles emerges shining from a spine of soft sandstone on Mount Diablo. Of such a pebble, Rood writes: It is where art lives, and I can rub it in my palms. His poems, too, are where art lives. This book is a force of tenderness, a visitation of wisdom." Details ISBN1632431041 Author Steven Rood Pages 112 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1632431041 ISBN-13 9781632431042 Format Paperback Illustrations 1 halftone Publisher Omnidawn Publishing Imprint Omnidawn Publishing Place of Publication Richmond, CA Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2022-06-10 NZ Release Date 2022-06-10 US Release Date 2022-06-10 UK Release Date 2022-06-10 DEWEY 811.6 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-06-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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