Moving in Memory: Poems

Moving in Memory: Poems

Moving in Memory, Julia Randall’s sixth volume of poems, explores our relationship to nature, to art, and to our past selves. In these poems, Randall’s familiar terrain―the woods, streams, and fields of Maryland―becomes our own. She takes us “through the fields/ of Queen Anne’s Lace and clover,” through woods filled with rock maple and sassafras, to places she discovered as a child. I am Piedmont born and bred between far hills and sea, great hardwoods overhead, and waters gently falling down the Bay But these poems also express Randall’s uneasiness with trying to exist in a world increasingly divorced from nature. They spring from a sensibility that pits memory and its recovery in art against the encroachments of commerce and technology. What shall restore cedar and sycamore, sweet springs, the secrets of the forest floor, where now backhoes and scaffoldings and gray computers set us free to manufacture loves and lifeless things along the steely groves where no bird sings? Unmistakably a lyric poet, Randall varies traditional forms in a way that is both reminiscent and original. Her musicality often surprises us into the recognition that poems can still sound like poems. In writing about place, memory, aging, and loss, Julia Randall displays a wide-ranging intelligence, a keen eye, and a necessary anger, as well as joy, humor, and acceptance. Adeste Fideles: Christmas, 1982 Anemones Another Poet Of Nature Answer To Annie Anthracnose Arias Assorted Masters Perform The Banana Tree At Carney Blooms All Summer Christmas, 1984 The Clearing Cooking The Heart Dingman's Falls Drawing In A Dream Of Reunion Duncansby Head Duns Scotus's Carinish The Economy, The Environment, Etc For The Keeper Of Mss Foundations Grackles Grieving Ahead The Hero At 50 Homage To Corot Honeyhouse Hill I Love New York, Virginia, Channel 2, Pier I, Etc Metals, Etc Middle Age, Middle East Moving In Memory Mysteries New Words For The Wind Notes From Cezanne Praying In Space Recipes Rosa Second Childhood Silence Skara Brae Subtracted Memories Thunder Touchstones Ii Translation Tripping Trumpet Vine A Valediction Video Games The Wilderness Of This World Willowware Winter Bloom -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Julia Randall is the author of The Puritan Carpenter, Adam’s Dream, The Farewells, and other books. Used Book in Good Condition