
- 104 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world—and a human world—that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful. Both elegy and celebration, I Say the Sky addresses some of the most challenging aspects of human existence, from childhood trauma to environmental devastation, and discovers, in unexpected and clear-sighted ways, wisdom, wonder, and peace.
Colburn's brilliant second book charts a journey to meet the self. From girlhood to parenthood, loss to discovery, in poems that sing, the book explores how meaning is made. Claiming the female voice from silence, the poems find their grounding in the body and achieve rootedness and hope.
I Say the Sky is a meditative and ultimately inspiring book that will be savored by seasoned readers as well as those new to poetry.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I Think It Is Such a Beautiful
- Upflying
- Smaller Even than Last Week
- The End of History
- Adulthood
- 4 a.m.
- The Physical World
- Anxiety
- What We Are Taught
- Memory
- And the Small Body
- Catalog of Beautiful Girls
- Stone Girl
- Sleeping Beauty
- Rage
- Knowing
- Reading to My Daughter
- Know
- On My 43rd Birthday
- Summer Evening
- Hands
- Teach Me
- On the Shortest Day of the Year
- March
- Imaginary World
- My Throat
- Outside the Sparrows Are Awake
- Happiness
- 6 p.m.
- Invocation
- When Death Comes
- August
- Arrival
- Onion
- Today Like Yesterday
- Amid So Much Suffering, Do I Dare Be Happy?
- Midwinter
- Power
- May I Greet You
- Rain Pours off the Eaves of the House
- 12 a.m.
- You
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Series Page