Poetry. "A young woman came to discuss her poems. She said very little. It was as if she were clothed in an intense hesitancy, a serious shyness. Now, in THE GARMENT IN WJHICH NO ONE HAD SLEPT, come these poems which are wonderfully various in their address and in what they address. Hesitation has been used 'to have something to give back,' shyness has been used as 'a nerve into all circumstances.' What Pam Rehm has given in these poems is worthy of our own intense and serious attention"-John Taggart.

The Garment in Which No One Had Slept (Burning Deck Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Rehm, Pam

United States

Burning Deck

The Garment in which No One Has Slept

Poetry

Poetry. GONE TO EARTH is Pam Rehm's first book in six years, and one of startling clarity and precision. These poems address isolation and companionship in modern life, and search for what is necessary- in regards to both poetry and belief. In praise of her previous work, Robert Creely has said, "She makes each edge of sound, of a word's various meanings, articulate with impeccable art." Rehm is the author of four previous volumes of poetry including TO GIVE IT UP, a winner of the 1994 National Poetry Series award.

Gone To Earth

Flood Editions

Poetry. SMALL WORKS is Pam Rehm's sixth book of poetry. While moving towards an ever more spare clarity, Rehm awakens the moral senses through bewilderment, impatience, and quizzical humor. Amid the crowded anonymity of an increasingly anxious urban life, these poems take sustenance from the natural world, children's games, and familiar valedictions: "The world of consequence be with you / always." As Fanny Howe writes, "These poems have an angelic quality, a solid invisibility that buoys up the lines from under and around them. There is neither an I nor a Thou within range, but both of these seem to be balancing Rehm's thoughts from end to end."

Small Works (Flood Editions)

Poetry. THE LARGER NATURE addresses the longing to be at home everywhere. With characteristic humility, Pam Rehm seeks the common roots of life, proposing that "Whatever lives / lives equally with me." Through austere language and an abstract, associational logic, she filters out the noise of so much communication in order to hear the familiar as if for the first time. Maureen N. McLane offers a description of SMALL WORKS that holds true of the present volume: "There are very few concrete nouns or visualizable places here; instead we move through a realm of language pondered and picked at, with words transposed, broken open, hymned. This is, then, not a poetry of deep image but of deep word, Rehm sounding out in almost Heideggerian fashion the ramifying levels of a word's depths.... These poems move astonishingly close to a grim silence, yet they ward off that silence, taking the measure of our days as well as the ways we measure them."

The Larger Nature (Flood Editions)

Winner of one of the 1994 National Poetry Series awards, To Give It Up is a remarkable new collection of poetry by a young poet well on her way to establishing herself in the literary community. Of her selection judge Barbara Guest noted "How fine, how original, humbling in the purity of its tone is To Give It Up. And the creative intensity in which her poems struggle until a calm descends in which the spirit thrives."

To Give It Up (New American Poetry)

Sun & Moon Press

Poetry. "Poetry is the antagonist of denial. Complicating the familiar world purely with the evidence of eye and insight, it insists upon the Spirit of things, even as life desolates our spirits with coarse familiarity. Pam Rehm, in this magnificent book of Showings, reveals new content and new contours in the breaking day. Her voice is a guide and guarantor."--Donald Revell "'Love is not consolation,' writes the philosopher Simone Weil, 'it is light.' TIME WILL SHOW shows to what degree that revelatory claim is right. 'Suspended between / patience and language,' Pam Rehm returns us, poem by necessary poem, back to the true and ordinary rigors of poetic attention--true because they usher us into the various forms of daily intimacy, ordinary because her slow engagement with life itself realizes a soul lurks in all things of this world, and nothing can be discounted. To see ourselves as a part of the world rather than apart from it means we must, as this poet does, 'Notice everything / Understand little.' Then the tender heart grows woundable again, then innocence persists in the daily patterns--turning off a light to go to bed, waking to the light that turns itself on. The sun is one such light. So is love. And when here 'Love goes deeper down,' we find ourselves in luck, for the poet has a lantern to guide us in, the kind light of these brilliant poems."--Dan Beachy-Quick

Time Will Show

Shearsman Books

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