Patricia Clark's Books
Sep.01.2009
Patricia Clark's poems explore not only refuge but also wonder and appreciation, as well as astonishment. A number of the 56 poems collected here show her grappling with loss, especially the loss of her mother, though she isn't one to indulge in misery. Instead, she goes walking. It is the harp tree in "The Poplar Adrift" that Clark imagines giving voice to sorrow, thus...
Feb.01.1999
Wondering is a small town in Montana. In Patricia Clark's "North of Wondering", with its ambitious allusion to Robert Frost's first collection "North of Boston", place, culture and climate intersect with reasoning and emotions to map the contours of "wondering", as if the word itself were a town.
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About Patricia
Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of two books of poetry: My Father on a Bicycle and North of Wondering. Her poetry has appeared in magazines such as The...
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Amnesty International
Audubon Society
Michigan Audubon Society
Nature Conservancy
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