A blessing outside us

Morley, Hilda

Pourboire Press

Cloudless at First

Cloudless at First presents 30 years of Morely's poetry, including her most recent work,in the same sure, lyrical voice.   Hilda Morley's poems, even the elegiac ones, are a celebration, almost ritually so, steeped in the wine of what Donne called 'the ecstasy.' She is a poet of loss, and she is a romantic as much as she is a metaphysician. The years have not diminished her amazingly youthful ardor. The late poems come to us wild and fresh, radiating a joy of invention that is inseparable from her word-play. -Stanley Kunitz

Literature & Fiction

United States

Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries

Cloudless at First presents 30 years of Morely's poetry, including her most recent work,in the same sure, lyrical voice. Hilda Morley's poems, even the elegiac ones, are a celebration, almost ritually so, steeped in the wine of what Donne called 'the ecstasy.' She is a poet of loss, and she is a romantic as much as she is a metaphysician. The years have not diminished her amazingly youthful ardor. The late poems come to us wild and fresh, radiating a joy of invention that is inseparable from her word-play.-Stanley Kunitz

Poetry

Poems consider mortality, grief, loneliness, violence, religion, the past, art, nature, and love.

To Hold in My Hand: Selected Poems, 1955-1983

Sheep Meadow Press

Poems consider mortality, grief, loneliness, violence, religion, the past, art, nature, and love.

Sheep Meadow Pr

What Are Winds and What Are Waters

Small Pr Distribution

What Are Winds & What Are

Asphodel Press

The poems in this fifth collection by Hilda Morley are poems of transformation. They map the poet's turning toward a healing from grief and brokenness. They explore the rich textures of friendship, and render with clarity and delicacy both outer and inner landscapes. Morley's poetry has a deep affinity with painting. In the poet's words: "From the Abstract Expressionists I discovered a way of seeing the modern world in its totality, finding meaning in what was defaced, injured, dishevelled, torn, eroded and disfigured, without rejection. To transform or transmute these elements but still to embody them was my task as poet."

The Turning

Asphodel / Moyer Bell

Moyer Bell

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