Inner Verses
Inner Verses
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From the author of To Give it Up (Sun and Moon) which was selected by Barbara Guest for the National Poetry Series, comes Pam Rehm’s Inner Verses, a book of deep gravitas that belies its slim, portable volume.
Comprising lyric poems that are attentive to “the underneath mind / growing more and more / quieted,” Inner Verses is a collection that understands the ways in which time is mutable and brief. Here, we experience a genuine devotion for both birdsong and breath, and the intimacies of thought connecting the two. In this way and with exacting tenderness, Pam Rehm creates poems that relish solitude and yet are generous enough to carry us as company.
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Pam Rehm’s “This Tender Riot of Chaos,” from her forthcoming collection, Inner Verses, mysteriously resets the balance between outer and inner weather, the abstract and the concrete. Her poetry saints may include both the William Carlos Williams of Spring and All and Robert Creeley, whose off-kilter lines keep us surprised. In her matter-of-fact meditativeness she has something in common with James Schuyler.
Angela Ball, The Best American Poetry
Few days make me happier in life than when I receive a new book from the brilliant poet, Pam Rehm. I’ve been reading Pam for 35 years and it’s always been a marvel. She’s a very shy person, doesn’t give readings, and therefore has remained under the radar as it were. Still she does have devoted readers. Her work has always been of the highest quality. Her new book, Inner Verses, just out from Wave Books is another stunner: quiet, etched, assured, with a deep ambition to capture a devotional mind, her work creates an atmosphere in which to get lost in the larger nature of the human.
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Pam Rehm is the author of Time Will Show (Shearsman Books, 2018), The Larger Nature (Flood Editions, 2011), Small Works (Flood Editions, 2005), Gone to Earth (Flood Editions, 2001), To Give It Up (Sun & Moon Press, 1994), and The Garment in which No One Had Slept (Burning Deck Press, 1993). She lives in Manhattan.
Publication month: October 2024
ISBN# 9798891060104 (5x7, 64pp, paperback)
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