Reading Patricia Hemminger's visionary What Do We Know of Time? is a delight and a privilege. We watch bird, beast and flower offer themselves to her lucid and sensuous language, and see how she herself flowers as a poet by speaking for living things, for village and countryside and ancestors. The profound past and the remote cosmos are nearby. "I see that we are mayflies of the cosmos," she says. Vitality and mortality are her companions in this...
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