The Hope of the Air.The Hope Of The Air Barry Spacks Michigan State University Press Michigan State University Press, founded in 1947, is the scholarly publishing arm of Michigan State University. During the past six decades it has become a vital part of the institution's land-grant mission and is a catalyst for positive intellectual, social, and technological Suite 25, Manly Miles Building, 1405 South Harrison Road, East Lansing East Lansing, city (1990 pop. 50,677), Ingham co., S central Mich., a suburb of Lansing, on the Red Cedar River; inc. 1907. The city was first known as College Park, but was renamed when it was incorporated. , MI 48823-5202 0870137328 $14.95 www.msupress.msu.edu The Hope of the Air is a collection of poems by songwriter, actor, literature teacher and award-winning poet Barry Spacks. Each poem is no longer than a page or two, but all have an indefinable lighter-than-air quality that lends a whispered, lingering impression upon one's consciousness. An absorbing treasury of simple reflections, sometimes witty, sometimes wistful wist·ful adj. 1. Full of wishful yearning. 2. Pensively sad; melancholy. [From obsolete wistly, intently. , upon the simple challenges and celebrations of daily life. "Message to the Widower widower n. a man whose wife died while he was married to her and has not remarried. WIDOWER. A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her, generally for ": In an envelope in a favorite book / she left him her final message: a lock // of her hair ... and with it the thought that she knew / surely one day he would find it there // and how he would feel, / finding it there. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion