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Overview"Catherine Staples grew up in Massachusetts and it's there, in New England woods, meadows, and Cape Cod coasts, that the loss of her brother plays out as a quest across space and time: from a weathervane in Madison Square Park to a rusty pump in the mountains, from words etched on nineteenth-century glass to the track of skates on the Charles River. Place is at the heart of the transformation of loss. So, too, are myth and the lives of New England's early naturalists and Transcendentalists. Henry David Thoreau's narrative echoes and enlarges hers. He, too, lost a brother and found his way by tuning ear, eye, and stride to """"the living earth,"""" a new way of seeing things. Vert is an old word in danger of being lost. """"In English forest law,"""" it's """"everything that grows and forms a green leaf, serving as cover for deer."""" It's suggestive of habitat, our imperiled earth, the small spinney of a brother's memory." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine StaplesPublisher: Mercer University Press Imprint: Mercer University Press ISBN: 9780881469219ISBN 10: 0881469211 Pages: 76 Publication Date: 07 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCatherine Staples is the author of The Rattling Window and Never a Note Forfeit. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and Academy of American Poets at poets.org. Awards include the Guy Owen Prize, a McGovern Poetry Prize, and a Walter Dakin Fellowship. Staples teaches in the Honors and English programs at Villanova University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |