A Temporary Silence

Poems Within the silence

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James McGrath

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At ninety-two years of age, James McGrath offers poetry in this book as a response to the 2019, 2020, 2021 coronavirus threats and opportunities to change and celebrate our lives. It is as if the months of the virus uncovered, even provoked, fragility and strength to speak in a variety of voices to echo confusion and bewilderment in the comings-and-goings of everyday life. McGrath's voices in the temporary silence are pumice and basalt, cloud and mirror. This is breathing. James says, "These are not last thoughts. You see, I am not completely alone. You are nearby."

Author Biography:

James lives in La Cieneguilla Village near Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is noted for his narrative poetry in the PBS/KAET American Indian Artists Series in the 1970s. In 2008, he was designated a Santa Fe Living Treasure. The Institute of American Indian Arts awarded James their Visionary Award in 2010. In 2014, he was given the Gratitude Award by New Mexico Literary Arts for his contribution to the literary life of New Mexico. In 2015, the University of Baltimore's passager's editors awarded him their 2015 Poet Award. The Kerf of the College of the Redwoods in Crescent City, California in 2019, nominated his poem, "Drawing Pictures," for a Pushcart Prize. James was United States Information Service, Arts America, poet/artist in residence in Yemen, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of the Congo in the 1990s. A biography of James, James McGrath: In A Class By Himself, by Jonah Raskin, author of American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and the Making of the Beat Generation, was published in 2012.

Release date NZ

October 2nd, 2021

Author

James McGrath

Pages

110

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

152x229x7

ISBN-13

9781632933553

Product ID

35346905

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