Trapeze by Deborah Digges

Trapeze by Deborah Digges

These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman's passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as "Boat" to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own "brilliant, trivial unmooring." As she wanders from the garden to the barn and into the woods, she finds her moods mirrored in the calendar of the seasons, making lush music of the materials at hand and accepting the seismic changes in her life with an appreciation for the incidental scraps of beauty she chances upon.

Throughout these luminous poems-which touch movingly on the illness and loss of her husband-Digges marvels at the brio with which we fling ourselves daringly into the night-

See how the first dark takes the city in its arms
and carries it into what yesterday we called the future.

O, the dying are such acrobats.
Here you must take a boat from one day to the next,

or clutch the girders of the bridge, hand over hand.
But they are sailing like a pendulum between eternity and evening,

diving, recovering, balancing the air.

DEBORAH DIGGES was the author of five collections of poetry, for which she received the New York University Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize, as well as two memoirs. Digges lived in Massachusetts, where she was a professor of English at Tufts University until her death in 2009. She was a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.

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ISBN 13	9780375710216
ISBN 10	0375710213
Title	Trapeze
Author	Deborah Digges
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2005-09-13
Number of pages	80
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