"What Remains to Be Said invites a sense of connectedness and gratitude. As in the opening "Morning Song," Shaw's mastery of words also unbinds us from words, and we enter the dark behind our eyes. Rhythmic tones carry us through place and time, exterior and interior seasons, with scicadas, monarchs, the moon, the tree, a pulse, the key-as guides. We enter Comforting the Wilderness (1977) with a dinner party, sensing the weaving begin like the rainbow dancing down the table. In A Late Spring, and After (2016), we encounter ...
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"What Remains to Be Said invites a sense of connectedness and gratitude. As in the opening "Morning Song," Shaw's mastery of words also unbinds us from words, and we enter the dark behind our eyes. Rhythmic tones carry us through place and time, exterior and interior seasons, with scicadas, monarchs, the moon, the tree, a pulse, the key-as guides. We enter Comforting the Wilderness (1977) with a dinner party, sensing the weaving begin like the rainbow dancing down the table. In A Late Spring, and After (2016), we encounter "The shadow of a falling leaf" which "plummeted down the page I read," coming through and being freed from the linear construct of time. Shaw gives us crayons to color or re-color our memory impressions and anniversaries. Ice time. Starfish to dispel linearity. Geode time and time as crystalline art. With love, "the thumbprint plants a maze," and perspectives scale from two to one to zero. Fingering paths of waters, ferns, and goldenrods construct a trellis to hold the fragility of life. Great and heavy themes can perhaps best be approached from the woods in our side yards. In the glee of wild turkeys, we find solemnity. As reader or as writer, this seashell offering spirals us in and out of words, giving life to our art and art to our life"-- Provided by publisher.
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