Anson County Poems.Anson County Poems Joseph Bathanti Parkway Publishers PO Box 3678, Boone, NC 28607 1933251115, $11.95 www.parkwaypublishers.com 1-800-821-9155 An award winning poet, Joseph Bathanti was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and now teaches Creative Writing at the Applachian State University. "Anson Country Poems" is his latest anthology and continues to document him as a an imaginative master of the prose poem prose poem Work in prose that has some of the technical or literary qualities of poetry (such as regular rhythm, definitely patterned structure, or emotional or imaginative heightening) but that is set on a page as prose. who draws his inspiration from what most of us see without noticing, note without reflection, and accept without further inquiry. 'Drought': The corn chants/to be buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. in early August,//It prays the land lie/fallow under merciful mer·ci·ful adj. Full of mercy; compassionate: sought merciful treatment for the captives. See Synonyms at humane. mer heaven.//Even the direst Love/in the burnt cropheart//and the blood of a boy/farmer could not save it.//There is a farmhouse surrounded/by more hell-colored corn//than one can see beyond./The cows go unfed//on the day of trucks/at the Walltown graveyard. Also very highly recommended reading for poetry enthusiasts are Joseph Bathanti's previous four collections: "Communion communion: see Eucharist; Lord's Supper. Partners"; "The Feast Of All Saints All´ Saints` 1. The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival. "; "This Metal"; and "East Liberty". |
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