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Living with Mystery
Kathleen Raine is the rarest of poets. Now in her ninth decade she is still writing poemss of a quality to match any of her earlier work. Living With Mystery is her twelfth book of poems and, as the title hints, the main area of their involvement is with the ever-present yet unknowabl mystery in which the human world is at all times immersed. This is the world of the every-day, whether outwardly considered or inwardly acknowledged, where the rhythms and patterns of the transient and the fleeting are held and transfigured in reverberant, poetic images. These are poems of a fluid transparency in whch the seemingly fixed outlines of this earthly life are dissolved by the presence of that mystery beyond life, that numinous, encompassing realm that bestows value to the incarnate reality.
This collection can only confirm Kathleen Raine as one of the major poets of the English language. It cannot fail to add lustre to her reputation: a reputation secured by her unfailing service to an imaginative vision she has magnificently sustained throughout her long life.
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Poetry Paperback, 95 pages List Price: $11.95 Sale Price: $10.76 ISBN 0-903880-48-2 |
"The best way to recommend this new volume of poems . . . is to say that it represents an arresting example of fidelity to the daimon. The daimon is the demon, the spirit, personal angel, inspirer and guardian of true poets."
-- The Times
"Kathleen Raine leads us out of Plato's cave, where we see only our own shadows, into an illuminated world with every living thing celebrating creation . . . Read these poems and stay out of the cave."
-- Poetry Wales
An Excerpt from Living With Mystery:
NOT IN TIME
I shall not return
To dear past places
Or be again
With those who shared my days,
But I will pass
Into lives unborn
Not through these words,
But we who have been
Sing in young hearts, this, this
Is your long-lost love
Whom you have known
Always, through our desire
To gaze on a remembered face.
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