Brace's Cove

by Joseph Featherstone

The poems of Brace's Cove consider the seemingly random connections between the cosmos and our daily lives. As Featherstone see it, "we are as close to heaven / as it gets," and even "the Milky Way pouring down" is reflected in smaller ways so that we may witness its routine: "Waterlilies, filling with rain, / tipping, filling again." The greater foretells its microcosms, much as waves report momentum for a larger body when they break against a cove...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932826946
• ISBN13: 9780932826947
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Book as Clear as Water

Reading this book is like taking a long, leisurely walk alongside a man of remarkable intelligence who never flaunts what he knows or boasts about his sensitivity. Yet his poems are intimate, candid, involving, and easy to understand without ever simplifying the complexities and perplexities of a life lived with eyes wide open. Some of the poems -- "Caitlin," for example, and "Intensive Care" -- are shadowed by death and mortal illness, but Featherstone does what only the best of poets can do: he shapes experience so that its container is beautiful and subtle, and that, instead of being depressing, is a form of exaltation.