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Giving My Body to Science |
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I bow and hand Sensei
her arrows. All but one that
I can't find, though
I combed the long grass
with my fingers. One arrow
gone. Perhaps underground
you hold it in your hand
against the broken dawn. You
are the wandering
arrow, the bow unstrung.
Your sudden absence has startled
the partridges from the plums.
--from Haiku of the Lost Arrow
her arrows. All but one that
I can't find, though
I combed the long grass
with my fingers. One arrow
gone. Perhaps underground
you hold it in your hand
against the broken dawn. You
are the wandering
arrow, the bow unstrung.
Your sudden absence has startled
the partridges from the plums.
--from Haiku of the Lost Arrow
Details
Part of the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series (number 4 in series)
160 Pages
ISBN 9780773519046
October 1999
Formats: Paperback, eBook
"Fierce poems speaking out against the anonymity enforced by indifference, abuse, and sheer mortality. Fierce in their plain speaking, but not at all plain in their musicality. A lushness of imagery, passionate cadences, a voice that witnesses pain even as it celebrates love in all its guises. Rachel Rose has written an extraordinarily clear-eyed first book." Daphne Marlatt.
"In images both harrowing and beautiful, always 'Luminescent/under the meat', this work moves me profoundly, as it disturbs." Mary di Michele.
"Rachel Rose is writing a poetry of intense witness and emotional drive, always marked by the distinctive tang of raw experience and the sort of wisdom which can only be learned by a heart that is fully engaged." Don McKay.
"In images both harrowing and beautiful, always 'Luminescent/under the meat', this work moves me profoundly, as it disturbs." Mary di Michele.
"Rachel Rose is writing a poetry of intense witness and emotional drive, always marked by the distinctive tang of raw experience and the sort of wisdom which can only be learned by a heart that is fully engaged." Don McKay.
Rachel Rose is a poet living in Montreal.
Shortlisted
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
The Canadian League of Poets (2000)
Shortlisted
Pat Lowther Award
The Canadian League of Poets (2000)
Winner
A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Quebec Writers' Federation (2000)
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
The Canadian League of Poets (2000)
Shortlisted
Pat Lowther Award
The Canadian League of Poets (2000)
Winner
A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Quebec Writers' Federation (2000)
