Bücher von Gregory Loselle

Gregory Loselle's new chapbook gathers the work that has occupied him most often in the last several years: observations of the animals among us, domestic and wild. In careful, often formal verse, he draws on direct and reported experience to isolate and analyze moments of reflection, elaborating on the moral significance of our experiences with nature. News stories of remarkable encounters with nature, scientific reports, and simple, backyard observations stress the proximity and importance of animate life around us.

In The Very Rich Hours, Gregory Loselle recounts experiences, in childhood and later, in and around his grandparents' house on Grosse Ile, Michigan, an island in the Detroit River near the mouth of Lake Erie.Loselle's mastery of various poetic forms parallels the way in which memory is a formal reconstruction of events. Throughout the collection, readers will enjoy triolets and rondeaux, as well as a ballade, sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, sestina and even an Anglo-Saxon caesura, all beautifully executed to bring these cherished stories to life.Take a walk down memory lane and open the door to a houseful of stories, from watching Grandpa shave to sifting through a crateful of old photographs that "call us to forgotten places" and remind us "what we were and meant to do" in the very rich hours of our lives.EARLY PRAISE:With a haunting and contemplative voice, Loselle employs rhythm, word-play, and richness of language line after line. Through rhyme, narrative constructs, and repetition, he crafts poems that are admirably controlled and precise, and reminds us that what William Carlos Williams writes is true: "A poem is a... machine made out of words." Loselle's beautifully spun poems continue to reverberate long after the last light's been switched off. - Janée J. Baugher, author of The Body's Physics and Coördinates of YesGregory Loselle's poems offer memory illuminated by a remarkable astuteness and strong craft. In his hand, the quotidian becomes extraordinary, uncommon, and wonderful. The poet investigates with an unrelenting intelligence and an astonishing clarity. -James Najarian, author of The Goat Songs