Litanies Near Water (LSU Press 2008)
Infused with Mediterranean landscapes, the poems of Paula Closson Buck’s second collection probe the world through language that acts sometimes like a divining rod and sometimes like a lightning rod. Elegant meditative lyrics such as “You Cannot Love the Wind” and “Theory of an Impersonal God” answer to politically alert poems like “Monk Killed by Tractor in Bid to Dodge Police.” Ultimately, in Closson Buck’s deft hand, the lyrical quest for understanding becomes a form of diplomacy between the physical and the metaphysical, between instances of beauty and the violence that threatens daily.
“[These] poems have all the properties of the ecstatic: incantatory grace, devotion to the particular, a desire to see beyond. But in a world where violence continues to dominate consciousness, whether at large in the form of genocide and war, or in our own backyards in the relentless patterns of nature, the ‘beyond’ seems a luxury that Closson Buck must resist: ‘Anything / but ecstasy I can believe.’ These poems are as tough-minded as they are beautiful, and they are very beautiful. But it is their proximity to silence–that particular silence we find at the heart of great poetry–that imbues them with extraordinary power and resonance.”
–James Harms
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