{"product_id":"pale-western-star-the-poetry-of-robin-devoe-paperback","title":"Pale Western Star: The Poetry of Robin Devoe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Devoe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFresh, diverse lyric poetry from Robin Devoe. Select excepts follow: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the title poem \"Pale Western Star\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScene 3: \"This Ride Was My Delight\"\u003cbr\u003eJulian: Riding...yes, we go a journey\u003cbr\u003eLooking for what? We do not worry\u003cbr\u003elest the wishful thing flee\u003cbr\u003eor melt beneath too eager a gaze. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCycling, we watch; talking, we feel\u003cbr\u003ehere we live without reflection, \u003cbr\u003eeach moment one fresh draught\u003cbr\u003eof what the universe thinks we ought\u003cbr\u003eto be feeding our souls. And be this pain -\u003cbr\u003eor pleasures too rough and wild to contain\u003cbr\u003eis no choice for us, but for Destiny a dream: \u003cbr\u003eCast forever beyond what we seem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePristina Aventis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogather we, beneath crystalline acclivity\u003cbr\u003eRave o'er this other, 'pon pillow bedewed: \u003cbr\u003eAnd quick-rills sing your rhinis trimbles;\u003cbr\u003eAnd Gankerings whimwelp long, soft chindles\u003cbr\u003eAs the ming-phyres sink beyond purpureal twills... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLark! Ho, the cries of Alatia poetously rise, \u003cbr\u003eWisping to Luna in half-mad surmise\u003cbr\u003eOf a night passing through chronos pantillate -\u003cbr\u003eThe intimate vespers of nectarous busqueda, \u003cbr\u003eAlive, prequacious... yet interminable -\u003cbr\u003eAs ever and on endless lovers dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeeling still the ripples, \u003cbr\u003eYour touch sent toward distant lands;\u003cbr\u003eStill the echoes of rapture, lapping\u003cbr\u003eUpon those sacred sands: \u003cbr\u003eThat farthest horizon within\u003cbr\u003eIs not known...\u003cbr\u003eUntil we walk there unalone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Overture\" \u003cbr\u003eI. The Season of Light.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes many early poetic ventures, dabbled upon whilst riding that wild current of twilight coursing thru deep, cerulean nights - that summer light, that luminous gloam, seeming bred especial for the boreal lands where Nature unveils her most beautiful soul, her most sacred countenance. Cycling the fringe of the blue dreaming land of Turnagain, of eighties Spenard - the entire city slept, while at half past two in the morning, riders alone feel the mysterious, powerful love of \u003ci\u003ethe western horizon's twitterlight\u003c\/i\u003e as a presence most palpable. That light was proof of the Divine, Her window toward what mortals may perceive of perfection. Casting eyes upon that horizon for hours on end, filled with an intense, glorious rapture beyond understanding - these secret times, the most joyous of an age, soul buoyed toward what strange and lovely height?\u003cp\u003eWe call this most exquisite twilight, tinging the sky deep within the boreal half-night and all the sweet feelings that constellate around it (including, it seems, some of the strongest and noblest feelings of which humans are capable) - We name this divine hint of heaven \u003ci\u003ethe Fleeting Azurine\u003c\/i\u003e. It's a permeating coda in such poems as \u003cb\u003eTwilight\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHeaven's Faintest Star\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eluniversal lispers\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eHorizon Dream\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003ePast Her Purple Hills\u003c\/b\u003e may offer the purest illustration of this theme: sunset, the horizon, the sky's tincture - painted with a tenderness of feeling, with a sweet, sad tone of an emotion approaching the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Poetical Mindswirl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost beauty-filled - these vague, dreamlike, lisping works: \u003ci\u003ethe Poetical Mindswirl\u003c\/i\u003e. Genesized after exposure to Carroll's \u003ci\u003eJabberwocky\u003c\/i\u003e and Joyce's \u003ci\u003eFinnegan's Wake, \u003c\/i\u003e within this style we strain to see the trellis-work supporting those \"dreaming spires,\" most delicate and beautiful - and just as we think a tiny sphere of infinite beauty pinnacles atop some sublime steeple, one blink brings her tumbling down from heaven. Some tumble gloriously: \u003ci\u003esubtle intimations of ideal beauty lingering aloft the wreckage\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170648330375,"sku":"9798761677067","price":8.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6059f5b409c9b3a6422166b869306532.webp?v=1733349734","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/pale-western-star-the-poetry-of-robin-devoe-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}