The Quiet in Me
By: Patrick Lane
Synopsis
In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies — the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river — ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him.
Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is “a museum for what’s gone” and a heart is “the sound of the wind seething,” there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: “the song of the falling water and wild birds.”
— from Harbour Publishing
Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is “a museum for what’s gone” and a heart is “the sound of the wind seething,” there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: “the song of the falling water and wild birds.”
— from Harbour Publishing
Contributor's Note
This collection of poems draws on the wisdom and awe of the natural world. Tender, wry, quietly holding space — may the images and words resonate with the wild(erness) in us.
— Lisabelle, NL
— Lisabelle, NL