Animalian - by Norah Pollard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>A poetry collection by a writer who has been compared to the best poets of the last two centuries. Norah Pollard rings all the changes from despair to exaltation. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A poetry collection by a writer who has been compared to the best poets of the last two centuries. Norah Pollard rings all the changes from despair to exaltation. She writes with astonishing honesty and clarity. Though she is the daughter of Seabiscuit's famous jockey, Red Pollard, she is very much her own person. Her appreciation of nature, empathetic understanding of others, refusal to compromise, and disgust with mediocrity and hypocrisy are a bracing tonic in a world where these qualities are in short supply. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Few poets have aroused such enthusiasm as Norah Pollard. Wally Lamb has this to say about her third book, Death & Rapture In The Animal Kingdom: "Before reading the manuscript of Norah Pollard's new book, I planned to make three stacks: the poems I loved, the ones I liked, and the ones I wasn't crazy about. An hour later, the 'wasn't crazy about' pile was non-existent, the 'liked' pile had three poems, and the 'loved' pile was the rest of the book. Pollard's poetry is simultaneously accessible and exceptional, her observations about life, love, and the natural world both disarming and alarming. Herein, find quiet rage and thrilling passion, vivid observations and unvarnished truths. Death & Rapture in the Animal Kingdom has my highest recommendation." </p><p><br></p><p>And this from Christie Max Williams concerning Pollard's last collection: "In Lizard Season, as in all her earlier work, Norah Pollard's voice is accessible, generous, and above all, trustworthy. It's a direct, irreverent, muscular voice - a Yankee's voice. The stories contained in these new poems are so consistently and impressively compelling, and so wonderful in their narrative and emotional range, as to achieve a worldly, universal appeal and power. Many are from the poet's own life, but many others give insightful glimpses into the lives of ordinary people who have experienced extraordinary moments. These stories are often funny. And like ancient fables, they deliver epiphanies of authentic emotional wisdom. Pollard also consistently enriches her tales with gem-like turns of phrase, some of them deeply memorable and true -'You don't know a man until you see / the compass of his compassion.' Pollard has long been known as one of New England's best poets. With Lizard Season, it may be time to reckon her one of America's best poets." </p><p><br></p><br>
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