Description
The poems in Still Possible pay homage to the invisible passage of time the deep, private current that wends through our lives as a steadfast companion, sculpting our interior worlds as inexorably and exquisitely as its visible manifestations. Whyte turns his eye, and his pen, to the possibilities and harvests this shaping reveals: the shyness and vulnerability of love, the illusion of imperfection, and the new invitations that beckon along the way. The poems reflect an abiding faith in times wisdom: a journey turned away from in youth waits patiently for later maturity; an early experience ripens in secret to reveal, decades later, a full understanding. Under Whytes poet-philosopher gaze, a rain-soaked day in an Irish farmhouse becomes a meditation on the essence of a truly good day: a settled contentment, alert and open to whatever may call. Plus, sheep, Seamus Heaney and a dog. Powerful language rests on a foundationof what isnt said, a silence underpinning the eloquence of articulation. In this way, Still Possible hovers above the numinous and the unknowable what we pray for, what we pass on, what mystery awaits and, in the end, what it might mean to be happy.
Author: David Whyte
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Many Rivers Press
Published: 12/01/2021
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781932887556
Language: English
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