Water under Snow
Poems
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
Water under Snow explores the intersection between the human and natural worlds with an eye toward what can be celebrated in both. A central theme is the call to pay attention to both worlds while we "have world enough and time." The collection draws on imagery of the familiar, a bull moose in a school parking lot, loons on a lake seen through a window, a photographer on the Atlantic coast. Time plays a role in these relationships, as in poems that look back on childhood experiences, and in those that reflect on the mortality of things living and man-made.
Endorsements (2)
“Ralph Stevens has perfected the art of living poetically. These intense, sensuous lyrics sing the immediacy of life and the life of a village in coastal Maine. His verse is dynamic, deeply spiritual, and earthy. You will find joy in these poems.”
“Stevens’s small gems of descriptive precision and imaginative range reflect the indwelling soul of things both ‘wild and domestic,’ the mystery inhabiting ordinary things . . . . So it is that I have come to value Ralph Stevens not only as a scholar of the poetry of George Herbert but as himself a poet in that very lineage. Water under Snow, his latest collection of poems, overflows with underlying life—life within, life beyond.”
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