Wild Honey, Tough Salt - by Kim Stafford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>Wild Honey, Tough Salt</em> gathers citizen poems for tough times--with testaments for world community, spells for peace, earth blessings, and family consolations.</strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Wild Honey, Tough Salt</em> offers a prismatic view of Earth citizenship, where we must now be ambidextrous. The book takes a stern look inward calling for sturdy character and supple spirit, and a bold look outward seeking ways to engage grief trouble. The book begins with poems that witness a buoyant life in a difficult world: wandering New Orleans in a trance, savoring the life of artist Tove Jansson, reading the fine print on the Mexican peso and the Scottish five-pound note. Clues to untapped energy lie everywhere by the lens of poetry. The book then moves to considerations of the worst in us--torture and war: how to recruit a child soldier? How to be married to the heartless guard? What to say to your child who is enamored by bullets? In the third section, the book offers a spangle of poems blessing earth: wren song, bud growth, river's eager way with obstacles. And the final section offers poems of affection: infant clarities of home, long marriage in dog years, a consoling campfire in the yard when all seems lost. The book will soften your trouble, and give you spirit for the days ahead.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Jefferson Public Radio interview</p> <p>Featured on <em>The Oregonian</em></p><br><br><p>Kim Stafford's reading at Annie Bloom's Books</p><br><br><p><em>Wild Honey, Tough Salt </em>demonstrates Kim Stafford's remarkable talent for coming to the heart. These poems rise beautifully and naturally from their settings, whether a morning in a forest, or inside an ancient myth, or high on a ridge above Big Basin. <em>Wild Honey, Tough Salt</em> contains poems of quest, reconciliation, and joy, offering the reader enlightening variations on the essence of heart and self in communion. "Everything spoke, and I was / nothing but listening."<br /><strong>--Pattiann Rogers, Burroughs Medal winner for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry</strong></p><br><br><p>Kim Stafford is the most humane poet going, devotedly writing every day, sharing encouragement and generous care everywhere. His eloquent lines, so deeply attentive to each moment, shimmer with breathtaking leaps and humble wisdom. They will help you live. Especially now.<br /><strong>--Naomi Shihab Nye</strong></p><br><br><p>Stafford's work reads like an invitation to citizenship, stewardship, and self. This is poetry that asks nothing and everything of us. That accepts and loves us, asks us to rise simply by paying attention.<br/> <strong>-- Tina Ontiveros of Klindt's Booksellers for <em>NW Book Lovers</em></strong></p><br>
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