Cypress by Barbara Klar

Cypress
  • Cypress
  • Barbara Klar
  • 1894078675
  • 9781894078672
  • 96
  • 2008
  • 6" × 8.75"
  • $18.00

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A poetic vision quest and pilgrimage into the numinous presence of the Cypress Hills.

Cypress is a series of linked meditative poems focusing on the Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan, a remarkable landform that Barbara Klar has come to know intimately. Moving with grace between the perceptual moment and its visionary dimension, Klar opens numinous avenues of reconnection to place.

Wind is Pine for listen. 
Snap means wait. 
And the shadow word 
dangles from the witch's hair 
and fights the old war of deadfall and pours 
from the one-toothed gargoyles in the eaves of the forest,

in the gardens of the giants, their woody flowers creaking, 
the word leaning west, west, growing vertical 
against the wind's disorder, the raven trees planted 
by one wingtip and flying. 

From "Not Speaking for One Week"

Intensely moving, courageous in their utter dedication, eager for the roots of being, the poems in Cypress carry us to a unique landscape that is also a place of transformation.

"This book takes an already sacred place and reconsecrates it through the graceful, intricate movements of language. That language is dazzling, vibrant, intimate and eloquently expressed on every page. Barbara Klar has an uncanny ability for reaching into landscape and drawing out its essences. These beautifully cadenced, richly authentic poems open whole areas of our consciousness to the visceral embodiments of earth, spirit and flesh. Cypress is a wonderful achievement by a poet at the height of her powers." - Don Domanski

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September 25, 2008. Open Book: Toronto in its fall magazine has an excerpt from Cypress by Barbara Klar.

Here is a link to the excerpt from Cypress:
htp://www.openbooktoronto.com/magazine/fall_2008/articles/cypress

and here's a link to the magazine:
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/magazine/fall_2008

September 2008.  The McNally Robinson's monthly newsletter The Bookseller covers Cypress by Barbara Klar.

See page 2 of the Winnipeg newsletter at http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/newsletter

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INTERVIEW WITH BARBARA KLAR - To read an interview with Barbara Klar where where she talks about writing and this book, go to http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=5&authorid=113

Reviews

  • Cypress by Louise Fabiani (Quill and Quire, October 2008)
  • Poet's singularity within Cypress Hills by Bill Robertson (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, November 29, 2008)

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