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RINGING HERE & THERE: A NATURE CALENDAR\nBy Brian Bartlett
\nBook Launch & Reading Tues, Apr 15, 7:00 pm
\nSpring Garden Road Memorial Library
\n<\/p>\n
RINGING HERE & THERE: A NATURE CALENDAR
\nBy Brian Bartlett
\nBook Launch & Reading Tues, Apr 15, 7:00 pm
\nSpring Garden Road Memorial Library
\n<\/p>\n
From back cover of book, published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside:<\/p>\n
In this, his first book of prose, Canadian poet Brian Bartlett offers
\na daily diary from spring to spring. In the tradition of John Clare’s
\nnotebooks and letters, Henry David Thoreau’s journals, and Annie
\nDillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Bartlett looks at his surroundings
\nwith a poet’s eye for detail, his ear attuned to the ringings of the
\nnatural world. Grounded in Nova Scotia, but reflecting travels further
\nafield to Alberta, Nebraska, New York City and Ireland, the entries
\ntake on the qualities of field reports, sketches, commentaries,
\ntributes and laments, quotations and collages. Over 366 daily entries,
\nBartlett shows that the resonance between human life and nature is
\nthere waiting to be heard.<\/p>\n
“The days are gods,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this book of days,
\nBartlett, one of the country’s finest nature poets, adapts a savvy
\nInternet Age form to reconnect us to the natural world, the true
\ncradle of human consciousness. By turns playful and serious, engaging
\nand wholly engaged, this book is an inspired antidote to the wired
\nword of social ephemera.
\n— Harry Thurston, author of The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History and
\nAnimals of My Own Kind: New and Selected Poems<\/p>\n
Reading Brian Bartlett’s book made me want to open my eyes and ears
\nand heart whenever I stepped out the door. He bears witness to a
\nforgotten truth that we could awaken to each morning if we chose:
\nnamely, that our days are not faceless units of time to be plied or
\nhoarded like commodities; they are gifts to be received and fostered
\nin the same spirit of lavish grace in which they come to us.
\n— Trevor Heriot, author of River in a Dry Land and Grass, Sky, Song:
\nPromise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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