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Blanchard, Len

 
9781481777278: Beach Synchronization: Selected Poems by Len Blanchard
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1481777270 ISBN 13: 9781481777278
Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The sixty poems collected in Beach Synchronization are set either on the ocean, or on the beach, or in transit to or from the beach or, finally, in the mind of the narrator when he is simply thinking about the beach and the ocean. The first person narrator of these poems is the poet. This suggests what is indeed fact, that the poet has spent a great deal of time enjoying the many beautiful beaches along the west central Florida coast. However, while the beach is often beautiful, anyone who has spent any time near or on the ocean knows marine weather can be harsh, even life-threatening. Indeed, the beach is an arena where dramas of life and death are played out daily. To truly appreciate the shore and the ocean, then, one must respect the marine environment and the lessons it has to teach us. One must, in other words, be in synch with the various moods of the sea and nature. The poems herein are loosely organized around the premise that the moods of the sea and marine weather have their various rhythms. An overarching theme of the poems is that one who is in tune with the rhythms of marine life will find himself or herself in communion with a transcendent reality. In other words, one who is synchronized to the natural world is likely to feel that the world of the senses is not the only world. In many of the poems in this collection, the narrator is overcome with a premonition or an inkling that the world he knows with his senses provides evidence of a higher reality, a reality in which the significance of his human experience - whatever it has been - will become fully clear and will be justified

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Beach Synchronization

Selected Poems

By Len Blanchard

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2013 Len Blanchard
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ISBN: 978-1-4817-7727-8

Contents

Overtura: Beach Synchronization............................................xvii
FIRST MOVEMENT-ANDANTE.....................................................1
The Truth in an Egg Shell..................................................3
Fishermen..................................................................5
Varieties of Alienation....................................................7
(Diving In) Out of the Rain................................................9
Solace at High Tide........................................................11
Amalgamation...............................................................14
Beach Effect...............................................................16
Winter Reminder............................................................18
SECOND MOVEMENT-MODERATO...................................................21
Weather....................................................................23
With the Current, on the Tide..............................................25
The Celestial Altar........................................................27
Classic Delusions..........................................................29
Beach Quest................................................................31
The Meaning of Hawai'i.....................................................33
Teetering (On the Edge of Meaning).........................................35
Aesthetic Principles.......................................................38
THIRD MOVEMENT-VIVACE......................................................41
Beach Holiday..............................................................43
Beach Sight................................................................45
Tidal Rhythms..............................................................48
Apollo on the Beach........................................................50
A Cry of Gulls.............................................................52
Lovers' Play...............................................................54
A Godly Fear...............................................................56
Rose Shells................................................................58
The Tern's Example.........................................................60
FOURTH MOVEMENT-ADAGIO.....................................................63
Ship Shape.................................................................65
Gray Distinctions..........................................................67
A Signifying Noise.........................................................69
Comfort in a Southern Wind.................................................71
Reflections of Two Worlds..................................................73
Red Tide...................................................................75
Intimations of Intimacy....................................................77
Caught Napping.............................................................79
FIFTH MOVEMENT-PRESTO......................................................83
Erosion Lesson.............................................................85
Simpletons.................................................................87
Musing on a Day of Rough Surf..............................................89
Honestly...................................................................91
Serious Fun................................................................93
Windbreakers...............................................................95
Plover in Sand.............................................................97
Alien Happiness (At the Beach).............................................99
Something in the Air.......................................................101
SIXTH MOVEMENT-LENTO.......................................................105
Pelican Kingdom............................................................107
A Troubled Paradise........................................................109
Seaside Daydream...........................................................111
Blinded in Paradise........................................................113
Bright Lights, Sandy Beach.................................................115
Pastel Dreaming............................................................117
Lamentation in Season......................................................120
Reflection in Torpidity....................................................122
SEVENTH MOVEMENT-A PLACERE.................................................125
The Marine Self............................................................127
The Accident...............................................................129
Feeding Frenzies...........................................................131
Storms Brewing.............................................................133
Swimming on Empty..........................................................135
On Inalienable Right and Absolute Evil.....................................137
Sifting Illusion...........................................................139
(Traveling) In Sacred Circles..............................................141
Coda: Water's Word.........................................................145


CHAPTER 1

    The Truth in an Egg Shell

    The turtle's nest marked with four stakes wrapped
    with several strips of yellow and orange tape—
    much like that used at scenes of violent crime—
    and bearing notice of registration and the fact
    in Sarasota it is a crime to tamper
    with eggs a turtle has deposited, drew...

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Verlag
AuthorHouse
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1481777270
ISBN 13 
9781481777278
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
168
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