Companion Grasses

By: Brian Teare

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Paperback | 1 January 2013 | Edition Number 1

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112 Pages

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22.54 x 15.17 x 0.82

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What does it mean to dwell in a place? These adventurous poems go on foot in search of answers. Walking the cities, coasts, forests and mountains of Northern California and New England, they immerse themselves in the specifics of bioregion and microclimate, and take special note of the cycle of death and rebirth that plays out dramatically in California's chaparral and grasslands. Inspired by Transcendentalism, Companion Grasses sees the sacred in the workings of the material world, but its indebtedness to the ecological tradition of California poets like Gary Snyder and Brenda Hillman means that it also unearths such evidence in the sensual materiality of words themselves. Both ecologically rich landscapes and highly rhythmic inscapes, these poems set seasonal and human dramas side-by-side, wresting an original, signature music from the meeting of site and sight. In pursuing an aesthetics situated in place, they compose an ethics of what it means to be a human companion to the natural world: "What we love, how we care for it,/is where we live."

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"It offers us multiple points of entry, and each thread informs how we think about others, none offering a key for easily resolving the work ... A multidimensional view of place for Teare contains not sediment, clay, and stone, but a very human landscape. We get Teare's toying with the Transcendentalists, we get love poems, we get rural life thrust up against crowded city scenes. Out most refined elements, our most sublime questions are shadowed by our most base and erotic muddling of this false, lingering hierarchy." -- Colorado Review on Sight Map s Weekly (March 18, 2013) "Teare ... considers what it means to inhabit and observe landscapes, both external and internal. The observer and the natural world exert force on each other... The collection closes with two ... elegies... Influences of ecology, philosophy, love, and loss most clearly coalesce." -- Publishers Weekly (March 18, 2013)

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