As Earth Begins to End: New Poems

by Patricia Goedicke

Book Overview

Top Ten Book of the Year.-Booklist

In her twelfth collection, Patricia Goedicke explores-without sentimentality-the complexities of aging and human relationships.

"Goedicke's poems have a hard, truthful ring, like parables of survival."-Harper's

"Spare, tender, complex, this moving collection of poems tells the story of two people in love throughout their adult lives, and the changes and challenges the passage of time visits upon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556591349
• ISBN13: 9781556591341
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Healing Poetry of a Vital Relationship

I found Patricia Goedicke's "As Earth Begins to End" a powerful expression of the loving closure to a long partmership. Feeling strongly about the meaning of that relationship and its times of ending, the poet lays bare the love, trust and sharing of the past, but hones in on the final times (several years) in which she and her mate, her huband, in this case, feel their way toward the end of the earth - the end of their partnership, their sharing. Using strong metaphors and unflinching expressions of her's and of their feelings during that time, Goedicke leaves no doubt as to the powerful effect that relationship had on them. Indeed, she expresses for us the ending of our earth with another. The expressions of strength, intensity and majesty of the ending of that "enduring" relationship are powerfuly stated.