Description
All This Divide
by Jory Mickelson
$21.00 Spuyten Duyvil Press (2024), 104 pages, ISBN: 978-1963908046
Praise for All This Divide:
“So dynamic, supple, and keenly attentive to the natural world, Jory Mickelson’s All This Divide allows the reader to contemplate our teeming days, our shared treasure house of planetary paradoxes: time coupled with alluring Nature as mighty destroyers and clarifiers (“what if the lake / was a century instead?”); propulsive history as instilling primer and stubborn obstacle. In this memorable, compelling book Mickelson meditates on the annals and inspiriting beauty of The American West and Southwest, the demesne as a vital realm of open spaces, heave-ho greed, and artful dreaming– all the while sustaining a poetry of adept music and rousing imagery, of daily reverence, sweeping empathy, and clear-eyed investigation.”
—Cyrus Cassells, 2021 Texas Poet Laureate
“The hard line of horizon draws the eye, always forward,” writes Jory Mickelson as they guide us in this richly-drawn pastoral of the American West. Like Whitman, Mickelson celebrates the natural world in great detail both in its landscapes and in the people who inhabit them. All This Divide is a beautiful and sensual collection that takes as it purpose “…to make every image true, or at least true enough to last.”
—C. Dale Young, author of Prometeo
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