Auguries

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781771314534

<P>Whether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of <i>Auguries</i>, the much-anticipated second collection from Yukon poet Clea Roberts, are saturated with their northern landscape. Roberts is well versed in the distances and dynamics between tedium and ecstasy, light and dark, isolation and solitude, freeze and thaw, flow and stillness. Her poems are spare and clean, each like a single larch in an immense white plain; their exactness startling and arresting. As the Gerald Lampert Award jury citation for her celebrated first book noted, “Her images . . . are not only crisp and precise, but manage to speak about the physical conditions of this place and its emotional landscape in one and the same lyrical breath . . .”</P> <P>Written during a period in which Roberts both became a parent and lost a parent, the poems in <i>Auguries</i> lend themselves to prayer, surrender, celebration, reconciliation, meditation, and auspice.</P> <P><i>Tell me <br> how to breathe <br>between <br> the painful <br> and the beautiful, </i> </P> <P> <i> my lips, <br>my eyelids <br>slow with cold.</i> (from “Cold Snap”)</P> <P>“Clea Roberts writes poems of clear, quiet beauty. They contain the silence of perception: alive to the world with open eye and open heart.” — Anne Michaels</P>