With Mouths Open Wide
New and Selected Poems
by John Caddy
Showcasing the fortitude and wisdom, the honey and fire, the jab and embrace of a master poet, With Mouths Open Wide is a landmark collection of more than three decades of writing. Including work from Caddy’s previous five books as well as new poems drawn from his experiences recovering from a stroke, the sum total of this expansive career carefully mediates the balance of outside and inside, sequentially rebuilding a delicate web of cognition, identity, and perception. Caddy engages readers with his acerbic wit, his base profundity, his downright honesty, and a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners attitude. With the blinkers off, this poetic vision comprehends a fulsome picture of human, and animal, experience—a flawed and loved slideshow of the world.
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John Caddy
Author's Bio:Award-winning poet and educator John Caddy is the author of The Color of Mesabi Bones (Milkweed, 1989), a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner for poetry, Eating the Sting (Milkweed, 1986), and Morning Earth (Milkweed, 2003). His “Earth Journal” poems circulate daily to teachers, naturalists, artists, and students around the world. A founder of Minnesota's Poets in the Schools program, Caddy has taught poetry to adults and children in over eight hundred settings over the course of forty years.
Quotes:“The poems in John Caddy’s With Mouths Open Wide compel and startle with their freshness, their lucidity, their lyricism…. There are echoes also of Whitman and Mary Oliver, Loren Eiseley, and Aldo Leopold and Emily Dickinson.” William Kloefkorn
“With unflinching grace, John Caddy’s poems offer up a highly realized natural world energized by lavish attentions and an intensely physical music, full of spondaic gravity and grit, full of affection and reverence for the intricacies and enormity of the small. A remarkable achievement.” Bruce Bond
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Price:
$ 18.00
Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 224
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Size: 6 x 8
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9781571314277
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