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The former poet laureate of Vermont offers a stunning portrait of life up north.A North Country Life is the story of author Sydney Lea’s powerful connection to his family, friends, and the northern outdoors. Loosely organized by the changing of seasons, different sections feature essays on such topics as childhood family fishing trips in the wilds of Maine, trophy fly-fishing the northern reaches of the Connecticut River, the opening day of tu...

Set against a backdrop of the remote northern Maine wilderness, fishing, hunting, and the pleasures of outdoor life bring together a mismatched pair of friends - weaving back and forth between past and present, it follows the friendship of ivy-league educated George Mayes and semi-literate woodsman and logger Evan Butcher. George, a drunk from his college days has a critical, life-changing moment of insight, and begins postgraduate life, howev...

Retrospective of a long life and already inimitable career in poetry, Sydney Lea's What Shines asserts and asks in equal measure. In older age, Lea affirms the luster of fruit long labored for: a resilient and happy marriage, the rewards of parenthood and, later, grandchildren, a profound intimacy with northern New England -- the environment, the seasons, the people, home, time. But he also transmits the escalating urgency of answering the fun...

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In The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of drawings that chronicle the exploits of a worm who embarks on an adventure of rescue, fueled by inescapable surges of bravery. This odyssey is aptly and expertly versified into an ekphrastic epic by former Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea. Readers of all ages will be entertained by the sights, tension, sus...

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Poems arising from a profound awareness of the natural world and a deep commitment to family and community.

With its mystical landscape and fiercely self-reliant citizenry, Vermont has inspired poets from its earliest days. This anthology of contemporary Vermont poets represents a wide range of accomplished voices?both young and old, both renowned and relatively unestablished. Their poems reverberate with what W.H. Auden called "memorable speech" in a wide variety of forms and subjects. While there is no such thing as a particular brand of Vermont p...

Sydney Lea says he hopes these columns will continue to be of interest to poetry lovers and students, but above all to the common reader. Seeking at every turn to avoid jargon, he explores how the making of a poet's art resembles the making of any reader's life. For Lea, poetry and everyday life are deeply entangled.

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE Sydney Lea and Fleda Brown, past poets laureate of their respectivestates and both nationally recognized writers who've given their livesto their art, have conspired to write an unusual book of essays.They've picked a wide variety of topics and headed out as they wishedwith each, covering a lot of territory, both artistic and memoiristic.Some of the pieces, like "WildAnimals, " are downright silly, some, lik...

These poems--selected from the award-winning poet's output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and human worlds, the attractions of jolly, good-hearted secularism, the distortions of doctrinaire religiosity, the seeming pointlessness of untimely deaths, b...

In Sydney Lea's poems, purest joy and woe flash amid the mundane, and beauty knows the full range of nature - from the plumed tension of a newborn child twisting away from the ready breast to bright birds lying dead on the winter lawn.

Eighth poetry collection by the founder of New England Review

Eighth poetry collection by the founder of New England Review

One of the most influential modern poets, Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was awarded virtually every major American prize for poetry. Written mostly by other poets, in styles ranging from the informal to the scholarly, these essays explore Hecht's image and poetic devices, his debts to other poets, and his place in the study of modern poetry.

The tenth collection of poems from conservationist and current Vermont Poet Laureate, Sydney Lea

An unflinching account of human interaction with daunting landscapes and inescapable memories

Description: These poems--selected from the award-winning poet's output over four decades--more explicitly than any of his prior volumes address the centrality of Christian vision to his aims and aspirations. Lea looks unflinchingly at all that may challenge his faith: the cruelties of both natural and human worlds, the attractions of jolly, good-hearted secularism, the distortions of doctrinaire religiosity, the seeming pointlessness of unti...

A collection of essays written over 30 years by Sydney Lea, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory - a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments. His musings on Robert Frost, his own approach to literary criticism, imagination, the American nature essay, rural life, the process of writing a poem, and fitting writing into ever...

A collection of essays written over 30 years by Sydney Lea, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory - a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments. His musings on Robert Frost, his own approach to literary criticism, imagination, the American nature essay, rural life, the process of writing a poem, and fitting writing into ever...