9/20/2023 0 Comments American elsewhereAs she does with her sharp ecological attentions to the thousand things of this world. How we might better count and dedicate our hours. “A Breviary in Time of Drought” had me weeping, with a sense of the timelessness of mystic faith. Everest, in “Sisypha: Running Down.” Myriad animalia, winged and walking always entering with their own lifestyles, scent of wild sage, and place at the bottom of the canyon where the sky breaks open a few moments a day and you look up the way you’d check for spiders on the outhouse seat. Meditations on dust as the “road that lives with you on your plate,” same dust on the same rhododendron, on the river, every mountain into the sea…Deep elegies for Lew Welch and Brother Antoninus, her lengths of loyalty there, an effortful dream of pushing her grandmother’s puce velour sofa up Mt. There are so many beautiful, visionary poemsin this book. Korte is a practitionerof the wild, as Gary Snyder would have it, which is more and more inside us as it disappears. Quirky too, even salty, down to earth, yet always with a dose of the sublime. Her poems are often rituals in service of creation. Then she jumped into the wild mind of the New American Poetry and also kept evolving in the faith that never left her, continuing that devotional deliberation as the world kept opening its sensorium and she further dedicated her life to the saving of the giant sequoia. Mary Norbert Korte (1934-2022) first went to the Catholic nunnery, and then to the woods to live deliberately as Thoreau did at Walden, aching for a radical spiritual frequency, a space and pace to breathe and awaken her own biophilia. Jumping into the American River: New and Selected Poems Volume 1 by Mary Norbert Korte Unpublished or long unavailable materials that have emerged alongside or as part of Lost & Found initiatives in archives across the country. ![]() Partnership with select publishers, these books bring to light Lost & Found Elsewhere is a unique series of book-length projectsĮmerging from the research of Lost & Found editors. The Graduate Center The Center for the Humanities Lost & Found Lost & Found Elsewhere Lost & Found Elsewhere - The Center for the Humanities
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