What The Land Gave
Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Award, Series III, 67
pages.
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Thompson's fourth book is again divided into three sections,
and
the poems are followed by the poet's "Afterword." In Section I, "
Fact
That Perfectly Gathers To Itself Light," the five poems are based on
myth-Greek,
Nordic, Hawaiian. Section II, "Our Bodies Do Not Forget," (a
reference
to Henri Bachelard's telling observation) begins with seven poems
concerned
with Voice and dedicated to seven speakers. In Section III, "Fact
Is
The Loveliest World There Is," the poet in these final poems rejecting
dreams
and other illusions, commits herself to reality, to fact, to the world
as
it is.
