Sweet Herbaceous Miracle - by Berwyn Moore (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Enid Shomer.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Poetry. SWEET HERBACEOUS MIRACLE won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by the renowned poet and editor Enid Shomer. Berwyn Moore not only observes myriad botanical wonders of nature, but she unlocks their significance for human self-understanding. Shomer writes in her foreword to the book, Moore is an accomplished poet with striking verbal facility whose poems offer the usual pleasures of language that poetry provides. But how she perceives the world, her sensibility, is another attraction for her readers... On a basic level, she demonstrates a way to be in the world. Poet Naomi Shihab Nye calls the book absolutely gorgeous writing, and poet Alan Michael Parker writes, Elizabethan elegance, light, and fire-crack pervade this terrific collection.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Sweet Herbaceous Miracle is absolutely gorgeous writing. Attentive<br /> language, rich, provocative scenes with painterly light shining through<br /> . . . Berwyn Moore's book takes the breath away.<br /> --Naomi Shihab Nye<br /> Elizabethan elegance, light, and; re-crack pervade this terri; c<br /> collection. In sizzling couplets and delicious sonnets, Berwyn Moore<br /> is ever the melodist--and ever more the skeptical interrogator (of<br /> the body, of love, of angels not us). "Now you have scratched into<br /> my dreams," says the speaker to the rat, and now these poems have<br /> scratched into mine. Who could want more from a book of poems?<br /> --Alan Michael Parker<br /> A subtle alchemy infuses Berwyn Moore's Sweet Herbaceous Miracle.<br /> Under the spell of her lexicon, a vagrant woman transforms into an<br /> angel, wasp bites become stigmata, and a cardboard box turns into<br /> a mysterious, sacred dwelling. Her Blakean visions are bound to<br /> beguile and leave the reader craving for more.<br /> --Megan Sexton<br /> The ghost of Dickinson haunts these delicate meditations on love<br /> and death and transience. They arrive like good news, like spring<br /> owers from the garden. And I can hardly think of a poet, especially<br /> in our plain-speak, laconic times, who better reminds us of the sheer<br /> lusciousness, the rich organic resources, of the English language.<br /> Reading these poems by Berwyn Moore is to fall in love all over again<br /> with your own tongue.<br /> --George Bilgere<br /> Sweet Herbaceous Miracle, Berwyn Moore's third collection of poetry, <br /> is a lush, compelling book that celebrates the pro igate complexities<br /> of the human condition and the natural world--through subjects as<br /> wide-ranging as rats, artichokes, cancer, and marital discord. Moore's<br /> sumptuous linguistic gifts, observant eye and deftly wielded ironic<br /> sensibility are at work in full force here, teasing out the confounding<br /> but also rewarding. Hers is a voice that surprises and grati; es at<br /> every turn.<br /> --Beth A Gylys</p><br>
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