Reasons for Going It on Foot

Literature & Fiction

Root, William Pitt

Poetry

Atheneum

As the title suggests, his new book explores territories, regions some of which are to be found on maps, local and foreign; some of which are found in moments of attention rather than places (the instant a salmon leaps); some of which are entered through human ("Sweat") or inhuman ("Answering Dance") rituals; some of which are discovered through those monuments of attention which are the works of an another's art; and some of which exist only in intimacy. There are landscapes, mindscapes, heartscapes in this very accomplished book, which bears strong evidence of the poet's preference for the natural world.

History & Criticism

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Faultdancing

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Coot and other characters: Poems new and familiar

Confluence Press

Invisible Guests

National Book Network Nbn

William Pitt Root's White Boots: New and Selected Poems of West [are] poems of tender awe and Rilkean praise erasing completely the divisions between man and beast, poems that invite the reader upon their back and carry him across buttes and vistas, arroyos and sheer cliff shimmy holes, poems whose music is wound so tight that the stitches and sinews disappear and all that remains is the pure imagination made manifest and majestic, the reader alone on the plain riding their shine. --Keith Flynn, Asheville Poetry Review

White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West (The Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series, 8)

Carolina Wren Press

Fireclock

Four Zoas Night House Ltd

The Tribute of His Peers: Elegies for Robinson Jeffers

Tor House Pr

In this first major collection in nearly a decade from a revered American poet, William Pitt Root concerns himself with those extremes—spiritual, physical, or both—at which social and cultural forms disintegrate, leaving the individual as an unshielded witness to transitioning miracles that induce a state of awe that cannot be diminished, diverted, or ignored. In poem after poem, Root compels the reader to discover that these key moments require the heart to open and the mind to still in order to fully accept whatever results, whether it is to suffer inconsolably or to discover new facets of wisdom. With an imagery that is by turns beautiful, tender, provocative, and terrifying, this collection signals the triumphant return of a poet of national renown.

Strange Angels

Wings Press

This volume collects approximately 250 poems, selected and thematically reorganized from the poet's highly acclaimed first five books. Here are poems evoking landscapes from the Gulf of Mexico to La Push, heartscapes inhabited by day-laborers, waitresses, bikers,rioters, philologists, weight-lifters and magicians (men and women old and young, black, white, Native American); and here too are evocations exploring what's it's like to have been a son, and to be a father. All are performed on a keyboard ranging from the resonant bass notes of despair to the ringing upper registers of ecstasy and uncut joy. Whether Root is writing deeply personal or mythic poems, what emerges from the collection, whole and entire, has all the power, daring and beauty of an individual vision.

Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom: The First Five Books

Confluence Pr

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