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Minding the Sun

Minding the Sun

Minding the Sun Softcover - 1996

by PACK, Robert

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Softcover. Fine. First edition, paperback issue. Fine copy.
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  • Title Minding the Sun
  • Author PACK, Robert
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 108
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Publication date 1996
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 92090
  • ISBN 9780226644080 / 0226644081
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.56 x 0.34 in (21.64 x 14.12 x 0.86 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95031080
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Poetry

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Reader reviews for Minding the Sun

From the publisher

With characteristic sensitivity and intelligence, Robert Pack reflects on man's relation to and responsibilities toward nature. Throughout, his verses are informed with an ecological vigilance born of his devotion to the New England landscape.

The opening section marks a return for Pack to the musical sensuality of the lyric. These short lyrics are uniquely his: the sequence begins in Vermont and concludes in the Andromeda galaxy, providing an opportunity to hold in mind the nurturing sun of our solar system.

The poems of the collection's middle section, written in the flowing narrative and meditative mode familiar to Pack's many admirers, take up the themes of human sexuality and consciousness. And the final section, replete with puns and paradoxes, shows Pack at his most playful as he muses on art, technology, romantic and marital desire, and the stubborn longing for transcendence. The poet concludes the volume with a sobering plea, "The Trees Will Die," to heed the sun's example, to cherish and protect our planet and all its living things.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 05/01/1996, Page 98
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/06/1996, Page 64
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