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The Children

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Poems of a lived-in landscape, where beauty is the afterimage of loss, and grief is staunched by the changing seasons.
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"Nostalgic"

Jar of feathers becoming,
finally, another map:
cloistered homage to a decade of geese
haunting the grid of our
steadfastness.
Un-find the coveted

ibis; kiss the scarlet of the robin's
blurred departure.
In the end, we were landmark,
compass, same as the lingered-over
pond, the marsh
where cattails remained when all else
left. Ragged in salt,
cloud-headed.

Paula Bohince's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Poetry. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amy Clampitt Trust, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

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Price: $14.95
Pages: 80
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Publication Date: 24 April 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781936747283
Format: Paperback
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"There's movement in Bohince's ­poems, but it's gradual and subtle—an eye passing like Ken Burns' camera over a still image, discovering new details. Even in narrative passages, Bohince lets participles do the work of predicates.... 'The Peacock,' about a depressed father who seems destined to leave his young family, mixes sentences and fragments to painterly effect."
—The New York Times

“Paula Bohince looks back at nature’s enduring and defining cycles in her new collection, The Children, finally concluding ‘In the end, we were landmark,/ compass.’”
—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Pre-pub Alert

“The plosive thrills and quietly mournful tenor of the finely-wrought poems in Paula Bohince’s The Children reward enormously upon first encounter, and only more so upon subsequent reads.... [A] masterful command of syntax and line.”
—Virginia Konchan, The Rumpus

“This is a poet whose work I want to keep reading.”
—Rebecca Morgan Frank, Memorious

“Aptly titled, The Children illuminates a kind of contemporary nostalgia, one the pursues an innocence found only in childhood without forsaking the beautiful complexities of aging and the natural evolution of the wildlife around us: “Virus in my heart. Branches / salted with buds, soft- / eyed on a sill.”
—Kelly Forsythe, The Los Angeles Review

“These verses conjure rural southwest Pennsylvania as an exotic locale, swirled with pussy willow, milkweed, hornet nests of gray papier-mâché, velvet-antlered deer, mushrooms like men on horseback, flusters of quail flushed from briar. . . . We are drawn into an interior network that at its best sets off Plath-like, compressed-energy depth charges of imagery.”
—Mike Schneider, Pittsburgh City Paper
Paula Bohince’s first collection, Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, received Sarabande Books’ inaugural Aleda Shirley Prize. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, The Hudson Review, Slate, and The Yale Review. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Amy Clampitt Trust, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, in addition to the 2010-2011 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. She lives in Pennsylvania.
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Pussy Willow
The Animals
The Children
The Peacock
The Dogwood
The Hive
Mechanical Horse with Girl and Bees
Without Compare
Pinot Noir
Evening Walk
Snow Birds
Gethsemane
Mother's Quail

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Hare in Snow
Milkweed
Evergreen
Man on Horseback
Gypsy Moths, or Beloved
Paper Dolls
Night Vision
Greylock
Robin's Egg
Green River Fugue
The Bracelet
Lenox Aubade
Everywhere I Went that Spring, I Was Alone
Nostalgic
Owl in Retrograde

THREE

Snowy River Visions
The Bedroom
April Blizzard
Baby Hazel
Flood
Imaginary Husband
Hornets' Nest
Clothesline
Wildwood Diptych
Entering the Ouse
Froth of the Tides and the Further Out
Silverfish
Yellow Leaves
Spring