Immensity - 1326

In Immensity, Beth Paulson constructs a sonorous, sensuous, and serious verse that won’t let you go. Metaphor? Music? Imagination? Craft? Narrative? Lyric? That’s all here, and danger too. “Two slim lanes and no guardrail, only / road to take me south from the Colorado / mountain town I call home,” Immensity opens; “Here on Earth soft soughs of spring winds / round corners of cottonwood trees, / trucks moan and thrum on the highway, / the river murmurs from across the road. / I can still hear her say my name,” it ends. Immensity is a book neither to be missed nor forgotten. Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, author of Ghost Gear There is starry verse between these covers. In Beth Paulson’s Immensity there is wonder for all that is luminous and solace and wisdom in certainty. Time and space are the territory of this poet who is trailed by wide sky. She is a seasoned traveler, a calculator of the universe’s math in lyric sums, a maker of poems edged in the quiet spirit of mystery. Paulson leans into the energy of painters, stargazers and poets. Spiritual guides of the East become companions. Paulson knows the “om of a snowplow,” and can brew tea for the Buddha while he waits, wordlessly, to finish a quilt. Kierstin Bridger, author of Demimonde In Beth Paulson’s new book of poems, Immensity, the reader accompanies the poet’s voice on a journey from the peaks of Colorado and Utah to the reaches of the universe, experiencing the known and less-known wilderness through mindful observation and contemplation. There are poems inspired by classic Chinese poetry and Emily Dickinson, and each finds a way to connect through the nature “we are passing through/naming places matter masses /apple, boulder, blossom, scree.” Lori Desrosiers, author of Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak In cosmic embrace, uncertain quanta correlate with the mysteries of faith and love. At home among the force fields, Beth Paulson’s poems become a force of their own. Bruce Berger, author of Facing the Music
ASIN: 1945752033
VSKU: PKV.1945752033.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Paulson, Beth
Binding: Paperback