Poetry.
Philip Arnold's wonderful collection of poems, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF A BLADE, is set in and inspired by the North Carolina Mountains.
In it exists the luminous intersection between the earth the speaker treads and a vanished world he longs for.
This is a contemplative volume: hushed, solemn as vespers, yet jubilant with 'the tossed / and restless earth, pouring out / its life through the difficult / and miraculous growth.
' Arnold reckons this mysterious earth, parsed out in splendid language, and reimagines it as his holy plat of remembrance.
--Joseph Bathanti.
| Volume | Hushed solemn as vespers yet jubilant with the tossed and restless earth pouring out its life through the difficult and miraculous growth |
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Dos Madres Press The natural history of a blade, paperback/philip arnold
