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The Taproot Confessions
87 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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January 3, 2015
This is Rob Whitbeck's second collection, which much like his first, provides beautiful insight into the lives of Eastern Oregon loggers, farmers, and factory workers. Unlike the previous collection, this one seems to focus on Whitbeck's ancestors (I'm assuming).
Like Oregon Sojourn, I loved this collection. One of my favorite poems is "Cedere." Here are a few stanzas from it:
I've studied ruby lichen
and then golden iris
that surrounds the black
pupil of a goat's eye,
the black one must enter
to start over.
After decades in the desert
I begin to smell rainwinds
long before they dampen ash
and wash the arroyos.
I also loved the Postscript to this book and am sure I will read this collection again and pass out the Postscript to my poetry writing students. There is sage advice in it.
Like Oregon Sojourn, I loved this collection. One of my favorite poems is "Cedere." Here are a few stanzas from it:
I've studied ruby lichen
and then golden iris
that surrounds the black
pupil of a goat's eye,
the black one must enter
to start over.
After decades in the desert
I begin to smell rainwinds
long before they dampen ash
and wash the arroyos.
I also loved the Postscript to this book and am sure I will read this collection again and pass out the Postscript to my poetry writing students. There is sage advice in it.
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