Underground Rivers
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Original Paperback: 92 pages
Red Hen Press
ISBN: 1-888996-50-1
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"With rare insight, clarity, and grace, Peggy Shumaker charts both the minutia of miniature lives and the grand and cosmic movements affecting earth's more imposing denizens. She tracks the profound and subtle dislocations or illuminations of self inspired by the closest regard of our natural world. This volume brims with the gifts and losses, struggles and triumphs that the poet gleans from nature, and which both instruct and sustain us all. Bearing an exquisite beauty and purity, these poems soar."
- Maurya Simon, author of Days of Awe,
The Golden Labyrinth, and Ghost Orchid
"When I pick up one of Peggy Shumaker's books, I know there will be a river of fire flowing through a tortured canyon of sky. But I also know there will be a soft rumble of thunder over the parched desert floor, the cool touch of summer rain upon the face, the scent of sage and creosote wafting through the dusk.
I come to these poems as a sojourner comes to the wilderness: to enter, to be inhabited, to be filled with grace and love. I am a better person for my experience within these poems. I doubt that I can praise a poet more highly."
-David Lee, author of So Quietly the Earth,
A Legacy of Shadows, and News from Down to the Café
"Peggy's Shumaker's fifth book of poems seems called forth by nature itself-from ash, aurora, legend, and vision-to keep and heal an audience thirsty for "the internal weather / of ocean inside us." In lines lyrical, sensual or short and harsh, the earth's claim on human spirit and ingenuity map these poems. This marvelous poet stirs up luminous color from the residue of life-owls' cough balls, the body's decay, memories of the dead, family, lost and reclaimed landscapes-all "matter // immobile but filled / with stories." And then she reminds us what bears repeating: "The arroyo by collapsing grows wide and large."
Thank you, Peggy Shumaker, for this radiant book!"
-Hilda Raz, author of Trans and Divine Honors
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