Dog and Moon

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2025

ISBN-13: 9781779400406

<P><B>A dreamlike collection of poetry that intertwines an embodied experience of the natural world with mythology, memory, and the creative process</B></P><P> Woven together from fragments collected in notebooks and dream journals over two decades of introspection, <I>Dog and Moon</I> inhabits a space of sleeplessness, enveloped in the darkness of night. Kelly Shepherd draws inspiration from the free-verse ghazal but takes the form and bends it, introducing couplets that recur and echo across his poems. They are a series of juxtapositions: nature writing placed in conversation with the language of poetry workshops, mythology and childhood memories, and sensorial encounters with the natural world colliding with images of home and belonging. </P><P><I>My ribs, the mattress&rsquo;s ribs&mdash;I can&rsquo;t sleep. This is a war,<BR /> says the newscaster reporting on the winter storm.<BR /><BR /> A war with Mother Nature.<BR /> When a metaphor is taken too far it becomes a projectile.<BR /><BR /> Try to talk to someone when they&rsquo;re snoring:<BR /> their responses are all the same. The mind races.<BR /><BR /> Happiness is only a purchase away,<BR /> but what happens when the box store runs out of boxes?<BR /><BR /> Time moves differently depending on your bedsprings.<BR /> From a net of clouds, the moon:<BR /><BR /> so much of writing is trying to remember<BR /> your thoughts from other states of consciousness.<BR /><BR /> An inexplicable need to follow<BR /> the pathways of unseeable sparks and insects in the blankets.</I></P>