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The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive nature of ""home"" in both historical and present contexts and reflect on the identity of the woman poet and what it means to be a writer. Lane's poems exhibit impressive range and variety - long poems, short lyrics, serial poems, poems inspired by visual art - and are richly attentive to the landscapes, both urban and wild, of her New Brunswick home. They voice a sense of urgency with respect to ecological crises and war; her poetic attention fixes unwaveringly on the smallest pebble on the coast of Fundy but is equally attuned to global patterns of destructive domination.
In her introduction ""As Opportunity for Grace, This Life May Serve"", editor Jeanette Lynes discusses how Lane's poetry integrates an ecopoetic vision with explorations of the artist's task of mapping her world. Lane's afterword reinforces her sense of the poet's project as a form of mystical play, a search for patterns in the ""unified disunities"" of all things.
Contents
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes
Foreword Neil Besner
Biographical Note
Introduction Jeanette Lynes
The Talisman
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Compost
The Song of Lot's Wife
A Stone from Fundy
Well, Viewed by the God
Colonial
Red Earth [excerpt from ""Divinations,"" Book Two]
Walking Under the Nebulae
The Weight of the Real
The House as Sculpture as Chapel as Priest
Six Poems on a Sculpture by Ülker Özerdem
For the Cenotaph, November 11, 1983
Departures
Whine
King's Landing
The Gift from the Bad Fairy
Skindeep
The Horn That Is So Difficult to Play
You Want Your Truths Told of You
Hills
Local Suite
About the Size of It
Half Past
Triptych/Tock
There Are Real Ants in the Metro
Strive for a Deep Stillness
Dusk Sequence
Codicil
""Cracked""
Keeping Afloat
The Soloist
Tourists
Overboard
For You
Afterword: Those Mysteries of Which We Cannot Plainly Speak M. Travis Lane
Acknowledgements
