Overview

At ninety-two, Earl J. Wilcox writes from the steady light of long attention. Preludes & Other Poems gathers new and selected works from a lifetime devoted to language, reflection, and faith in the ordinary. A retired professor and founding editor of The Robert Frost Review, Wilcox brings the same clarity that shaped his years of teaching into these poems-each one a lamp lit against the dark. From the tender rituals of marriage to the quiet reckonings of age, Wilcox writes with restraint and radiance. His poems echo Dickinson's precision, Frost's steadiness, and Eliot's search for order, yet remain distinctly his own-rooted in the Carolina soil that has always sustained him. In these pages, mourning becomes music, and every act of seeing becomes a form of grace. Curated and introduced by Andrew Mack of Loblolly Press, this new collection continues the partnership that began with The Surfacing of Joy. Preludes & Other Poems invites readers of Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Jane Kenyon, and Maggie Smith alike to slow down, look closely, and find beauty in what endures. Here is a poet who proves that clarity is its own grace, a long look made luminous.

Full Product Details

9798990073098

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Earl J. Wilcox, born in 1933, spent four decades teaching literature at Winthrop University, where he retired as Professor Emeritus of English. A scholar of Robert Frost and Jack London, he later turned to poetry full-time, publishing in The New Verse News and other journals. His debut, The Surfacing of Joy (Loblolly Press, 2023), marked the beginning of a late-life flowering that continues with Preludes & Other Poems. He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where he still writes daily-faithful to language, to light, and to the grace found in ordinary days. Andrew Mack is the Founder and Managing Editor of Loblolly Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing emerging and marginalized voices from the American South. He is the author of three poetry collections-Weekend Revival, What the River Was, and most recently, Beasts of Chase-and he is also the host of the podcast Loblolly Press In Conversation. He lives in Asheville, NC with his partner.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available