From its first poem, "String," with its mythic overtones to the final "The Movement of Ice," August Evening with Trumpet deals with the varieties of surprise and mystery, pain and wonder in the human experience. In constant motion, this collection ranges across a broad landscape, one in which trout swim through a house, where a coal miner father on vacation digs clams, where an old mother refuses help as she walks a narrow plank across a brook, and where in the quietly moving "Late November," the speaker releases a ...
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From its first poem, "String," with its mythic overtones to the final "The Movement of Ice," August Evening with Trumpet deals with the varieties of surprise and mystery, pain and wonder in the human experience. In constant motion, this collection ranges across a broad landscape, one in which trout swim through a house, where a coal miner father on vacation digs clams, where an old mother refuses help as she walks a narrow plank across a brook, and where in the quietly moving "Late November," the speaker releases a raccoon from a leg-hold steel trap. Uncluttered, clear, and direct, the poems move effortlessly and seamlessly into one another, gathering an overall pleasing unity and narrative energy. And if there is a vein of quiet sorrow and darkness running through the collection, it is balanced against courage, grace, and good humor. At the book's center is a deep reverence for childhood, for parents, for children, for language, and for landscape, all of which Humes admirably holds up for us. Harry Humes's work brings to mind William Blake's "To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower."
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VERY GOOD. 5X8. Very good cover and spine. black markings to rear cover. blue markings to rear endpaper. very clean colored endpapers. black ink inscription by the author to title page which states "For my good friend Al, Best, Harry Humes 9/2/05." pages are very clean. BLACK AND BLUE INK INSCRIPTIONS THROUGHOUT TEXT. _PAB_
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