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The Sound of the Earth Singing To Herself Ricky Ray

The Sound of the Earth Singing To Herself By Ricky Ray

The Sound of the Earth Singing To Herself by Ricky Ray


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Ricky Ray writes living takes time, and I want you / to stay with me. It's just one tender, honest moment in this collection of deep, effervescent tenderness. Throughout The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself, Ricky's poems ask the world to stay just a little longer. -Devin Kelly, author of Blood on Blood (Unknown Press)

The Sound of the Earth Singing To Herself Summary

The Sound of the Earth Singing To Herself by Ricky Ray

In one of the poems in this chapbook, Ricky Ray writes living takes time, and I want you / to stay with me. It's just one tender, honest moment in this collection of deep, effervescent tenderness. Throughout The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself, Ricky's poems ask the world to stay just a little longer. They admit, with grace, what they don't understand. They offer thanks. But what they do most singularly is care. Ricky's poems care about life, love, dogs, birds, gentleness, unknowing, wonder, and more. Poetry is a kind of witness, and each poem in this chapbook bears such gentle witness to this world, a world that sings and kills and births, all at once. They, as one poem states, sneak a peak even when the world's too tender to watch. What to do when the world is not enough? Read Ricky's poems. What to do when the yearning feels unbearable? Read Ricky's poems. What to do when you want to heal, even when healing feels impossible? Read Ricky's poems. To read this book is to learn, just a little bit better, how to live. -Devin Kelly, author of In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017) and Blood on Blood (Unknown Press, 2016)

About Ricky Ray

Ricky Ray is a disabled poet, critic, essayist and the founding editor of Rascal: A Journal of Ecology, Literature and Art. He is the author of the full-length collection, Fealty (Diode Editions, 2019), and two chapbooks: Quiet, Grit, Glory (Broken Sleep Books, 2020), and The Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself (Fly on the Wall Press, 2020). His awards include the Cormac McCarthy Prize, the Ron McFarland Poetry Prize, and a Liam Rector fellowship. His work appears widely in periodicals and anthologies, including The American Scholar, Verse Daily, Diode Poetry Journal and The Moth. He was educated at Columbia University and the Bennington Writing Seminars, and lives on the outskirts of the Hudson Valley, where he can be found hobbling in the old green hills with his old brown dog, Addie.

Table of Contents

Prelude: Quiet Opens the Door Sometimes Vision Withers on the Vine The End of My Brother A Thimbleful of Blood What's Left (Dis)ability Toward What The Dance The Dream Somewhere in Indiana So Long As There Is Light, There Is Song Hunger Rascal Glad of the Quiet Day of My Death Death on the Iron Escape My Favourite Sweater Impatience My Favorite Time of Day Is When the Light ... On Hurricanes We Carry More than We Can Tell Lamb's Lung: Addie's Favorite Treat Read Slowly Hannah So Tired Any Rest Is Grace Another Poet Supernovas into the Dark Picking Myself Up Off the Floor A Walk in the Woods

Additional information

NLS9781913211318
9781913211318
1913211312
The Sound of the Earth Singing To Herself by Ricky Ray
New
Paperback
Fly on the Wall Press
2020-10-09
46
N/A
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