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Weather Report ReviewWeather Report is laid out in several sections, with varying themes. However the whimsy, curiosity, and the captivating enthusiasm Rob Carney offers of life and love are prominent throughout. When reading his work, it is as if you are taking a walk with yourself as a child, observing the world as you've never done before. Those things that are most important in life are laid out, nestled in simile and metaphor. Something as seemingly simple as a sunny, windless day draws out a commentary on humans and our need for change. Talk of the moon brings about tender curiosity in a discussion between father and son. It is here, in these deceptively simple topics that Rob Carney gives his Weather Report.
Perhaps the most attractive aspect to the book is its accessibility to everyone. You don't need to be an English major to understand it, and the topics are close to home. Rob's language is peppered with vivid imagery, but using words we speak every day. It isn't pretentious, it isn't overly complex, but the depths found within his words are bottomless. You can float along, reading his poems to yourself, letting the images wash over you. You can swim in the sensuality he writes as you share it with a lover. Or, dive into the special section written for his son, bringing delight to readers of all ages. Rob Carney's ability to reach every audience member with his inquisitive and passionate style is what makes him so impressive.
It is the wondering that drove us to discovery as children. That all-encompassing need to understand pushed us to question. In our day to day lives we are taught to stop questioning, stop observing, and just keep moving. The path Rob Carney puts his readers on reminds them of the world around them, begging to be acknowledged. Do yourself a favor and take that walk.Weather Report Overview

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Wind and Weather (Poetry) (The Liberty Hyde Bailey Bookshelf, Volume 3) Review

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Wind and Weather (Poetry) (The Liberty Hyde Bailey Bookshelf, Volume 3) ReviewLiberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was the third child of a Michigan farm family. He went on to become a professor of horticulture at Cornell University. He was one of the first scientists who urged a reconsideration of Gregor Mendel's work in genetics; he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to chair the National Commission on country Life, which urged the rebuilding of a great agricultural civilization in America; he wrote numerous scientific texts on agriculture and horticulture; he articulated a philosophy of agrarianism that echoes today in writers like Wendell Berry and in advocates for the organic agriculture.
And he wrote poetry.
His poetry, including "Wind and Weather" (1916), combines two themes - his strong faith in God and his strong feeling for the land. As in Wendell Berry's writing and poetry (Berry credits Bailey as an influence), the landscape and geography seems to take on its own spirit or personality, and its own being. From the poem "Discovery:"
I went into the starlit night, I sat me by the way,
A silence overtook me there, a silence soft and gray;
I roamed into the forest depths, I wandered far and far,
The silence followed where I went, like silence of the star...
The poet finally finds the source of this silence of the landscape:
...I went into my questioned heart, my heart of hopes and fears, --
I found the perfect silence there, the silence of the years.
The poet measures time by the seasons of an apple orchard ("Apple-Year"); he considers nature gradually subsuming the remains of an old train crash ("Wreck"); he hears the voice of the wind with its promise that "All the world a poem is / To them that hearken to the wind" ("The Great Voice"); he surveys the whole of geological history ("Mt. Tom").
Included in the volume are 15 pages of poems about farmers and farming, in which Bailey celebrates agriculture as a heroic occupation, or perhaps something more like a calling. From "It Rained:"
The plowman walks his furrowed quest
With wind and rain from sea to sea -
What bears he there upon his breast? -
He bears the Seals of Destiny.
It's this section that contains my personal favorite from the collection, "Tile Drain," about a tile drain lying beneath a farmer's field and telling the stories it sees and hears: "...Calm and content / I silently
lie / And carry my work / As men pass by.
The poems are old-fashioned, to be sure (after all, they rhyme). But there is something curiously contemporary. Reading Bailey is to understand some of the influences on Wendell Berry, but reading Bailey is also a pleasure in its own right.
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The Windy Day Review

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The Windy Day ReviewWe get a lot of wind during our summer storms out here in Arizona. We like "The Storm Book" by Margaret Bloy Graham, and we like this book, too. It's a happy little story of how a little breeze chases the blues away and leads to big imaginings.The Windy Day Overview

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Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children Review

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Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children ReviewTEXT SUMMARY= Each short, rhyming poem about the accompanying snow picture is writen on either a one or two page spread with title and page number refering to the index.
VISUAL SUMMARY= Beautiful colour photographs capture the different moods of snow presented in different locations. The layout is varied with fullpage spreads, pictures watermarked in the background, mirrored pictures, and pictures offset from the edges.
CRITIQUE= This entire book-entity is a work of art, as the layouts vary to add variety to the mostly white images and black text and the pictures so perfectly express the picture they are pared with. This sense of unity can be attributed to the fact that unlike most picture books, the Stemple's photographs came before the text. The poems were only produced after he had given the photographs to his mother, Jane Yolen, who was then directly inspired by them. The short poems would most likely hold a child's attention with their humour and amusing rhymes.Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children Overview

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SEASONS For a REASON: Don't Faint in Stormy Weather Review

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SEASONS For a REASON: Don't Faint in Stormy Weather Review"SEASONS FOR A REASON: DON'T FAINT IN STORMY WEATHER" is a very well written book. It is short and to the point. It explains the basic message of salvarion, and why the need for a relationship with God the Father. It is also a good reference book with answers for the next step... What do I do when hard times come? How do I keep the faith in the middle of a storm? All these things are addresed in this small but powerful book. It is doctrinally sound, will build your faith, and encourage your heart. No matter what your level of faith maybe, if you are hungering and thirsting after rightness, you will be filled. There is much tobe received but cannot be digested in one setting. This is a book you will return to often.SEASONS For a REASON: Don't Faint in Stormy Weather Overview

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Some Weather Review

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Some Weather Review"Scot Siegel makes individual epiphany the key to social discovery... The right words placed well." - Kim Stafford, author of 'The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft'
"Some Weather is a guide, a rally for consciousness to sanctify the details of how we legend our selves." - Maureen Alsop, author of 'Apparition Wren'
"His readers will be grateful for each of his discoveries, for all of his delights and affirmations." - Paulann Petersen, author of 'Bride of Narrow Escape' and 'Kindle'
"Scot Siegel's poems are unafraid of joyous things... Here's a poet who is comfortable with reporting out the range of human experience. His poems are both the songs and the weather of a full, interior life." - David Biespiel, author of 'Wild Civility' & Editor of 'Poetry Northwest'Some Weather OverviewA television screen is a place to warm a child's hands....the barrel of a gun tunnels through history...a puppet's frown is a life lived wrong...time shifts, and global warming becomes long weather. With this book, such acts of poetry map new alliances: the lyric word whispering in the office, singing in the family, charting policy for the land. Scot Siegel makes individual epiphany the key to social discovery. History, planning, and public understanding all feel the touch of his poetry-the right words placed well. His readers will experience a giddy readiness, will lose the ability to separate poetry from the jolt of discovery in daily life. Kim Stafford, author of The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft. Scot Siegel's Some Weather is a guide, a rally for consciousness to sanctify the details of "how we legend our selves."Even "after the crack of last gavel wobbles into starlight," Siegel, steadfast, assures that integrity is timeless, changeability of voice may offer transcendence, and that each generation is held to the "arched lid of the world" by a tenderness, not simply human, but "thinner and sweeter than ether." Maureen Alsop, author of Apparition Wren Some Weather brims with poems ready to look "...down the long barrel of some/ unknown history," poems unafraid to confront "...the unbound pages of a book called our inheritance." In this first collection, Scot Siegel - urban planner and lyric ponderer - emerges as a voice grateful to discover "What a child knows/ without our saying:/ blossoms/ under ashes!"His readers will be grateful for each of his discoveries, for all of his delights and affirmations. Paulann Petersen, author of Bride of Narrow Escape and Kindle Scot Siegel's poems are unafraid of joyous things. Some poets steer away from nostalgia and sentimental love, but Siegel is so full of gratitude that he makes everyday pleasures - family memories, bright words from his children, the promise of marriage - shine. And because he is so humane and generous toward life, his poems about struggles and griefs feel both finer and truer. Here's a poet who is comfortable with reporting out the range of human experience. His poems are both the songs and the weather of a full, interior life. David Biespiel, author of Wild Civility,editor of Poetry Northwest

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Tigers In Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers Review

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Tigers In Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers ReviewPadel's book is certainly interesting and informative but, if you're concerned about the future of Asia's wildlife (not only tigers), you come away with the melancholy, somewhat depressing impression that population growth and habitat destruction do not bode well for the wild creatures of our largest continent.
I agree with another reviewer that the story would certainly be better without the inclusion of details from the author's personal life, particularly the angst over the break-up with a lover. Consisting of chapters pieced together after numerous trips to south, east and southeast Asia, "Tigers in Red Weather" covers a lot of ground, assessing from Padel's own treks and interaction with wildlife conservationists, the state of wilderness preservation in such far-flung locales as India, Bangladesh, Russia, China and Indonesia. Each time she's back in England, however, we're subjected to awkward meetings, meals and cocktail party banter with the ex-boyfriend. Sorry but as a reader I couldn't care less and that's certainly not why I bought the book.
There is some charm in Padel's descriptions of walks in tropical rainforest and I could certainly relate, as a neophyte outdoorsman, to the "creeped out" factor of running across pythons, spiders and scorpions which, as is often the case, appear when least expected. Admittedly an amateur trekker at best, the author manages to convey what these exotic trips would be like for the average Westerner reading from a cushy armchair. The most valuable contributions of "Tiger's in Red Weather," however, are the tales about the dedicated, incredibly hard-working, isolated scientists, conservationists, rangers and others who devote their lives to saving not only "charsimatic megafauna" such as tigers, leopards, bears and elephants but the trees that harbor them and the deer, pigs and other prey they feed upon. One can only admire the sense of stewardship that drives these people. Often underfunded and performing thankless tasks (especially concerning local inhabitants who are sometimes downright violent), the work of Padel's heroes is truly worthy of commendation. This goes for the native rangers and forest wardens as well. Unfortunately too many succumb to bribes, threats and the lure of materialism but a large enough percentage hang in there despite low (or zero) pay, violent death courtesy of heavily armed poachers, primitive living conditions and isolation from their families.
The stars of the book, the tigers, are predictably rarely seen. I won't give away how many of these magnificent creatures Padel manages to spot on her far-ranging adventure but suffice it to say that the reduction in numbers is very disheartening. Far more often scat, pugmarks and other signs of their presence are the only clues that particular forests and preserves harbor any beasts at all. In many ways the appendix sums up the situation as it devolves a year or so after the author's journeys and it's worse than ever. One wonders how much further down the path of extinction we've gone since the publication of the book.
A theme that permeates this book is the short-sightedness of humankind and the frustrating, almost hopeless task that confronts those who dedicate their lives to fighting rapacious, self-serving greed. The fact that China is largely responsible for the vast majority of illegal tiger products (skin, bones and other parts) is particularly enraging. One wonders, if the demand is so "essential," what on Earth do they think will happen once the tigers are all gone? Will human beings cease to exist? Hardly. Will sexual behavior disappear for lack of aphrodisiacs made from tigers and other endangered animals? I think we all know the answer. This mentality is hard to fathom but it goes on and on. The same goes for the last old-growth forests in the world. Only 4% of India is set aside for the preservation of wildlife but even that seems too much for some. Helpfully, Padel provides a list of organizations and contact information at the end of the book where readers can contribute to honest and reliable groups that actually do some good.
Overall, however, this is a much needed book, shedding light on a subject that too often is given short shrift in mainstream media. It forces one to think about the future of the planet and contemplate where we'll be in the next century. What with the current focus on global warming and all the environmental consequences that entails, we're not left with a good feeling at all. I'm glad to say that I lived when wild tigers still roamed the Earth. How much longer they'll do so is anyone's guess.Tigers In Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers Overview

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Catching Tigers in Red Weather Review

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Catching Tigers in Red Weather ReviewAndrew Demcak is a polished professional. Though his poems have appeared in many very fine journals, this appears to be his first published collection where the stage is his and his alone. His style is unique: each of the 66 poems is written in six stanzas of couplets and each poem lives on an individual page, and from this 'confinement' that would restrict other writers in scope of content and conveying a mood or atmosphere or short story, Demcak creates his magic.
The range of emotions and images and topics and observations he touches is so vast that Demcak is able to address any reader of poetry and enhance previous flights of thought with completely new visions. Equally at home in describing nature and people and memories of poets passed, he draws upon what seems like an endless vocabulary which he uses in ways that causes our infatuation with words to blossom with fresh meaning. An example:
'SLEEP IN THE MOJAVE DESERT
We doze and swelter in a comfortless
desert. Stars ignite the lengthy evening.
Crickets congregate in their armor-plate.
Grains of sand retain the day's heat. We lie
queerly here, objects of obsidian.
The rabbit's sad cry from owl talon.
The sky splits at sunup to dearer air,
cool dew gliding from the blue horizon,
the straight distance without road or address.
Noonday earthstones connecting dry lines,
guarding their pallid salts, where lizards creep
like firecats emerged from cinders.'
Extracting one poem from this bounty contained in CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER is almost cruel, so completely fresh is every poem and profound. Demcak is able to cross gender lines as well as any poet today as his LAST LOVE proves:
'So everything came into place, He tore
the gauze to the core of my boyhood,
sliding in while my eyelids turned plum.
His bitter mouth, the insistent red veil
of the Gaza sun, my thighs like twin doors
held open. I had chosen the closest
man, cut my bandages like a runner
testing his legs. I unfolded myself
a loose-petalled Narcissus, Anxious
for his erection, condomless, straining,
unaware that his body politic
was followed by the viral campaign.'
Andrew Demcak is an important new voice, a man who will surely change literature and the way we enter the unexplainable places that poetry finds and describes. This is a rich book of brilliant jewels. Highly recommended! Grady Harp, October 08Catching Tigers in Red Weather OverviewPoetry. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award (selected by Joan Larkin), is a collection of poems by a new voice that combines montage cut-ups with an informing dialectic that gives us a wide array of contemporary American viewpoints. By turns playful and serious, he deftly embraces and criticizes a popular culture that is too complicated to dismiss with swift and simple comments. It is a book of rich rewards. "Andrew Demcak is a poet unafraid of the harrowing, sometimes revelatory nature of modern life. Above all, these poems evoke the moments when people come together, both in violent and romantic ways, and they also train a keen eye on the aftermaths of our partings. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER will remind everyone who reads it that beauty and fear come into the world hand-in-hand. Like any significant poetry, it will alter its readers' perspectives forever"--Kaya Oakes.

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The Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions Review

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The Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions ReviewThough Strand has been widely regarded as a notable poet for over thirty years, this book--which comes hot on the heels of his Pulitzer Prize in poetry--is his first collection of essays. Actually, there are other kinds of prose here as well, including two prose poems on the topics of translation and narrative poetry (reprinted from his 1990 book THE CONTINUOUS LIFE) and a story revolving around the conflicts between public life and poetic sensibility. All three are humorous, as are several of the essays: Strand has always oscillated between pure gravitas and a kind of serious humor.Like the best such collections, THE WEATHER OF WORDS not only illuminates Strand's own poetic practice, but also offers insights into poetry that readers unfamiliar with his work will find valuable. An example is his discussion of the villanelle form--how it turns out to be the "safest" kind of poem in which to talk about loss.Particular standouts here are "A Poet's Alphabet," which opens the book, and Strand's introduction to THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1991.The Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions Overview

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Red Clay Weather (Pitt Poetry Series) Review

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Red Clay Weather (Pitt Poetry Series) ReviewReginald Shepherd's work captures the gamut of emotions which humanity longs to express but often finds incapable of communicating clearly. Edgy and controversial, his poems are life changing and this book contains a compilation of his very best work.Red Clay Weather (Pitt Poetry Series) Overview
"Among other things, Shepherd has always been an elemental poet. His work abounds with the imagery and motifs of water and fire, and while those elements are important here, it is air and earth that are the more dominant elements in this collection. . . .

Clay, red clay in particular, recurs several times throughout the collection as a motif of earth. It is the substance of creation, but always of impermanent things, whether heroes or Babylonian statues with feet of clay, or of things durable but fragile, such as the cuneiform tablets of 'A Parking Lot Just Outside the Ruins of Babylon.'" —Robert Philen, from the Foreword


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