Bøker av Lyman Grant

A volume of poems selected from Lyman Grant's previous six published book of poetry, with 9 published but previously uncollected poems and 22 new poems. The volume includes poems written between 1978 and 2022.

ostrica, Lyman Grant's ninth book of poems, is a fragmented meditation on nature, gardening, spirituality, poetry's legacy, and the call of the here and now. Situating himself in his own garden of verses, Grant re-scripts many of his favorite lines of poetry, from Hesiod to Shakespeare, Coleridge, Millay and Bishop, on to Gwendolyn Brooks and Terrance Hayes, who provide the inspiration for the book through Hayes' Golden Shovel form. Lyrical and often intensely musical, Grant's poems are like little bird songs escaping over the fence of your neighbor's yard.

After his lifelong friend Neal Adams died of cancer, poet Lyman Grant sat the paintings his friend had created in this final months. The poem he wrote is a haunting, beautiful, and tender meditation on death, art, love, faith, and the creative process.