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By Roger Dunsmore
Roger Dunsmore invokes Gary Snyder and Lewis Thomas as epigraphs to this impressive and wide-ranging collection, but they aren't the only guiding spirits: Lucille Clifton, Ikkyu, Lao Tzu, Werner Herzog, Eckhart, and various 'everyday folks' from a variety of walks of life—as well as a menagerie of animal spirits—also inhabit and inform these poems. Although the poems speak from a sensibility ethically inhabiting and in loving relation with peoples and creatures from the entire planet, Montana is the hearth around which Dunsmore's poems come into being— sometimes like slowly unfolding stories around a slow-burning fire (with that yarn-spinning talent of mastery), sopmetimes like lyrical bursts and fever (with a powerful emotional core), sometimes like softly spoken observations that nudge a reader toward a more deliberate inhabitation of the world. Dunsmore writes,
At the porch
I wipe ice from the blade
with worn out jeans.
The stove is cold,
and two horses in a lower field
lean against the dark.And in some ways, that's what these poems do: they give us a glimpse into a body of work from an artist who has leaned against the dark, shown us the extent of our endurance. These are poems from a life lived carefully, lived within and for the art.
—Tod Marshall, Gonzaga Professor and former Washington State Poet Laureate
“Roger Dunsmore’s collection On the Chinese Wall: New and Selected Poems, 1966-2018 runs as deep as the river of time. Ways of seeing the world are renewed and retooled. These poems seem in tune with the hum of ancient spirits. The old earth sings.” Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.
Introduction by Rick Newby
Foreword by Stephen Osborne
$28.00 postpaid
Publisher: Drumlummon Institute (2018)
Language: English
Softcover, 410 pages
Weight: 1.25 lbs.
FREE SHIPPING (Media Mail only)
More info at the poet’s website: https://www.earthsmind.com/book-on-the-chinese-wall.php
By Roger Dunsmore
Roger Dunsmore invokes Gary Snyder and Lewis Thomas as epigraphs to this impressive and wide-ranging collection, but they aren't the only guiding spirits: Lucille Clifton, Ikkyu, Lao Tzu, Werner Herzog, Eckhart, and various 'everyday folks' from a variety of walks of life—as well as a menagerie of animal spirits—also inhabit and inform these poems. Although the poems speak from a sensibility ethically inhabiting and in loving relation with peoples and creatures from the entire planet, Montana is the hearth around which Dunsmore's poems come into being— sometimes like slowly unfolding stories around a slow-burning fire (with that yarn-spinning talent of mastery), sopmetimes like lyrical bursts and fever (with a powerful emotional core), sometimes like softly spoken observations that nudge a reader toward a more deliberate inhabitation of the world. Dunsmore writes,
At the porch
I wipe ice from the blade
with worn out jeans.
The stove is cold,
and two horses in a lower field
lean against the dark.And in some ways, that's what these poems do: they give us a glimpse into a body of work from an artist who has leaned against the dark, shown us the extent of our endurance. These are poems from a life lived carefully, lived within and for the art.
—Tod Marshall, Gonzaga Professor and former Washington State Poet Laureate
“Roger Dunsmore’s collection On the Chinese Wall: New and Selected Poems, 1966-2018 runs as deep as the river of time. Ways of seeing the world are renewed and retooled. These poems seem in tune with the hum of ancient spirits. The old earth sings.” Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.
Introduction by Rick Newby
Foreword by Stephen Osborne
$28.00 postpaid
Publisher: Drumlummon Institute (2018)
Language: English
Softcover, 410 pages
Weight: 1.25 lbs.
FREE SHIPPING (Media Mail only)
More info at the poet’s website: https://www.earthsmind.com/book-on-the-chinese-wall.php