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Fire in the Orchard by Gary Margolis
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ISBN (paperback): 0-9669419-4-2 About the Book Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that poetry is ‘what will and must be spoken,’ and in his new book — his best yet — Gary Margolis speaks in a deceptively quiet but nonetheless urgent voice of what usually goes unspoken, of the spaces between people, the distance we keep, the mortality we bear. Fire in the Orchard is carefully crafted and psychologically astute, a work of emotional attainment, necessary speech.
– Edward Hirsch What I treasure about these poems, so diverse in their concerns, is the thread of passionate decency that unifies them. Gary Margolis believes that God may be found among the weeds, and that this jangled world can draw us into the numinous if we only stay alert to the ground-level pulsings that can lead us there. His spare recollective voice fiercely and tenderly sings us on our way. – Ron Powers About the Author Gary Margolis is director of counseling and associate professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont. He has been a Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and recipient of a Vermont Council on the Arts award and a Millay Colony residency. His previous books, The Day We Still Stand Here and Falling Awake, were published by the University of Georgia Press. He lives with his wife in Cornwall, Vermont, where he is a volunteer firefighter. |
