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"""...There's never a moment when the writing is not totally true to his understanding of the lines, and how every line that follows is trustworthy in its attachment to the elemental truth of the place."" -David Ferry, author of Bewilderment"

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"""This is a great book. The exactitude and the clarity of the writing is in the knowledge that we gain from Whited's growing up on a ranch on the prairie. Whether he is describing a cow or a fence post, the writing is always true to itself, true to what he's looking at, and utterly reliable. There's never a moment when the writing is not totally true to his understanding of the lines, and how every line that follows is trustworthy in its attachment to the elemental truth of the place."" -David ferry, author of Bewilderment and translator of the Aeneid There is a witnessing happening in Being, There; an attentive being-present. The pastoral form nods to Georgics but don't be fooled: Whited's Virgil is Parmenides of Elea, and it is Whited's metaphysical questioning that guides us through these poems, 'where nothing and forever mingle.' The poems in this slim volume hold so much silence your ears will ring with it for the rest of your life."" -Anna Badkhen, Guggenheim Fellow, author of the National Book award-nominated Bright Unbearable Reality ""This is a beautiful book and strange, as the deeply familiar once forgotten seems strange. It is a wonder-welcoming experience, a masterclass in close listening....and holds in its pages a wisdom that, as Whited says, 'has been still for a long time.' "" --Kim Garcia, author of Drone and Brighter House ""Set side by side with his luminous translations of fragments from Parmenides, Whited's deeply felt and powerfully realized poems open new paths into how we understand woundedness, healing, and the nature of existence."" -Jennifer Barber, author of The Sliding Boats Our Bodies Made ""Whited hears the pain of his fellow suffering creatures, as he hears Parmenides in the stones of Elea, and hears the unspoken truth of life in the stoicism of his hard-luck rancher father. When he translates the ancient language, it could be speaking directly from his father's mouth, in the wide-open, meditative spaces of Montana."" -George Kalogeris, author of Winthropos"

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Gary Whited is a poet, philosopher and psychotherapist. His first book titled, Having Listened, won the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Contest. In 2014 it received a Benjamin Franklin Silver Book Award. His poems have appeared in journals, including Salamander, Plainsongs, The Aurorean, Atlanta Review, and Comstock Review. Gary lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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