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| A Little Wildness: Some Notes On Rambling Click to Order from Amazon.com by Sydney Lea Sydney Lea is as fine a companion on the page as American writing about nature has to offer. -Michael Pollan, Harper's What does a good long ramble in the woods tell us about our shared experiences, our loneliness? Is it possible to shed our civilized layers of defensive behavior, our fear of unmasking and discovery, of the unknown or once-known but forgotten? Join celebrated outdoorsman and poet Sydney Lea as he walks off into his beloved New England woods on a vision quest that touches everyone who reads along to keep him company. One's own shape-shifting powers come into focus in the light of Lea's surprising discoveries and revelations.
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Ghost Pain Click to Order from Amazon.com by Sydney Lea "Wonder: Red Beans & Ricely" from Ghost Pain won a Pushcart Prize. Singer of stories, lyric raconteur, Sydney Lea has evolved—through a long, rich career—into one of America's most harrowing and honest poets. Ghost Pain is his most eloquent and wrenching book. This poetry implodes categories. If we must give it a label, let's call it talking blues. If we must describe it with a single word, let's call it heartbreaking. -T.R. Hummer To say that Ghost Pain offers us glimpses of an "examined life" would be too tepid. Lea's poems—with their heavily freighted, measured talk—enact a journey into and finally through self that is both unsparing and urgent. They give honesty back its good name by demonstrating that it must be hard won, achieved. It's a remarkable book, which takes his work to a new level. -Stephen Dunn
No matter how I bushwack on my rambles so that from aerial view each might resemble a rabbit's beat, a maze, an ampersand (I turn myself, I turn my thoughts around)....
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| Pursuit of a Wound Click to Order from Amazon.com by Sydney Lea (Finalist, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2001) “Sydney Lea demands attention, He weaves a close, intricate picture best described as the New England of his own mind.... Lea is a fine regional port, in the same sense that Frost was first and foremost a poet of place.” - Publishers Weekly“ "[Lea’s poetry] is elegiac, sad yet redemptive, and succeeds either shaped into free or traditionally formal verse.” - Hudson Review“ "Hats off to a master poet.” -Carl Little, Maine Times Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear, unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity's place in it. His latest work, Pursuit of a Wound, is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny ear for language as well as his willingness to speak for the unlucky and the dispossessed.
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To the Bone Click to Order from Amazon.com by Sydney Lea (Co-winner, The Poets’ Prize, 1998)
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Hunting the Whole Way Home Click to Order from Amazon.com by Sydney Lea
"A first-rate outdoor memoir of one of our most distinguished contemporary American poets. It's a highly entertaining, beautifully written, and searingly honest account of a lifetime of hunting and fishing experiences ... It is especially good on grouse and trout, fathers and sons, marriage, and enduring friendships ... a book to be treasured by everyone who values what remains of our precious natural world." -Howard Frank Mosher "These tales and essays about one man's explorations of the natural world, in the company of a vivid series of guides-including woodsmen, children, even a few animals are fresh as spring, and equally intoxicating." -Michael Pollan, Harper's | ||||||||||||||
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A Place in Mind Click to Order from Amazon.com by Sydney Lea "A Place in Mind carried me spinning up back eddies, drifting through the layered currents of this intensely moving account of northern water, distance, separation. It's full of brilliant images and strange poetic details, and the quality of writing is superb -- so good it hurts to read it.... A Place in Mind is a wonderful book." -E. Annie Proulx "Sydney Lea has a special affection for the world, especially the outdoors, but time is the stream in which he is fishing. There is something thorough and substantial and gracious here, something with the long reach of other eras. It's a book with freight: a friendship, love, bodies of water, and the smell of wood smoke. A Place in Mind took me forward and backward through the stations of being a man.... And the tour was touching and elegant." -Ron Carlson "Far and away the most exciting and best-written novel to come out of New England since Ernie Hebert's The Dogs of March. It's rich with fishing and hunting lore, believable, gritty upland characters, a splendid evocation of McLean, and a carefully-developed theme of unending friendship based on shared values." -Howard F. Mosher | ||||||||||||||||||
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