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Paperback As Earth Begins to End: New Poems Book

ISBN: 1556591349

ISBN13: 9781556591341

As Earth Begins to End: New Poems

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Top Ten Book of the Year.-Booklist

In her twelfth collection, Patricia Goedicke explores-without sentimentality-the complexities of aging and human relationships.

"Goedicke's poems have a hard, truthful ring, like parables of survival."-Harper's

"Spare, tender, complex, this moving collection of poems tells the story of two people in love throughout their adult lives, and the changes and challenges the passage of time visits upon them."-Chicago Tribune

"In the past, Goedicke has written tender verses on tough subjects, including her mother's cancer and her own. Now out of the death of her husband she has produced what must have been by far her most difficult book to write, and it is her best. These poems will move any reader who cares to read them."-Houston Chronicle

"The sober yet visionary world she discovers amids loss is one of the hardest for any poet to encounter. Goedicke pulls it off with simple and startling language that does not seek sympathy, but infinite understanding."-Bloomsbury Review

Patricia Goedicke has published twelve volumes of poetry which have earned an impressive range of recognition, including a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a William Carlos Williams Award. She lives in Missoula and teaches at the University of Montana.

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The Healing Poetry of a Vital Relationship

I found Patricia Goedicke's "As Earth Begins to End" a powerful expression of the loving closure to a long partmership. Feeling strongly about the meaning of that relationship and its times of ending, the poet lays bare the love, trust and sharing of the past, but hones in on the final times (several years) in which she and her mate, her huband, in this case, feel their way toward the end of the earth - the end of their partnership, their sharing. Using strong metaphors and unflinching expressions of her's and of their feelings during that time, Goedicke leaves no doubt as to the powerful effect that relationship had on them. Indeed, she expresses for us the ending of our earth with another. The expressions of strength, intensity and majesty of the ending of that "enduring" relationship are powerfuly stated.
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