Without any feeling of compassion, they picked up the dying male bird and mercilessly put into their bag. The hunter (narrator) and his female companion felt no regret for their heinous act. The bird was almost dead (it means that the bird was not actually dead, but it was on the verge of death) because its heart was throbbing. The hunter (narrator) who carried a gun with him, took aim at one of the birds and fired. The male bird could be compared to a dream of fire. He wanted to involve in sexual act with his companion in a very aggressive way. The male bird wanted to imply his own whims in this game of love and sex-making. In fact the male bird had a domination nature. It seemed as if she had no personality of her own or she had nothing distinctive or special while the male bird seemed to be the master of the situation. The female bird was somewhat shy, passive and timid. Besides making violent movements and activities, they were screaming. Their manner of mating was very fierce and violent. They seemed to be in a state of intense passion. The narrator, who was on a hunting expedition along with his female companion, entered a forest where two monals, male and female were passionately engaged in the act of mating beneath the projecting rocks. The poet asks: “Why write about a past / buried in books, dirt, controversy?” Veronica Patterson's new collection centers on the story and its place in history-bespeaking of demons and dangers, and the aftermath. Maneuvers: Battle of the Little Bighorn Poems is a brilliant gem of a book.The Hunter’s (The Narrator’s) killing A Male Monal Bird Callously: ~ Brian Daldorph, Editor Coal City Review, author of Jail Time Patterson artfully shows that each object gathered after war has an emotionally charged story attached. ” Included in the list is a “general-service button (blue wool attached),” and in the next poem she tells the human story behind this “artifact”: a sister carefully sewing the button as her brother is anxious to leave for war. In her Pushcart Prize–nominated poem “Signatures,” the poet lists in a dense paragraph the “artifacts” collected on the Little Bighorn battlefield: “cartridge case arrowhead rib bullet obliquely severed cervical vertebra. Maneuvers: Battle of the Little Bighorn Poemsįinishing Line Press $12 Click here to purchase deserves wide circulation.” ~ Leonard Trawick “Characterized by remarkable invention and wit, in rare combination with philosophical depth and genuine feeling. I can only congratulate the poet on a fine, heartfelt, delicate work.” ~ Lola Haskins From this beginning, the poet journeys outward to her mother as a thousand-faced cup, to her father as a red-haired boy, to the samovar of a great-aunt, who 'died of having lived. creates a sense of the forthcoming abundance. As the story opens, the dreaming speaker is drawn into an alley strewn with flowers and fruit, which. “What I like about is how naturally it makes its moves.
Praise for Veronica Patterson’s Previous Work:
The rapid-fire rhythms in Veronica Patterson’s "& it had rained," charged with the lyricism of poetry and the ruminative strides of prose paragraphs, enlarge the reader's awareness of the world: bird, wings, rain, water. ISBN: 978-1625490179 WordTech Communications $17.00 Order from Amazon Order from Barnes & Noble “Characterized by remarkable invention and wit, in rare combination with philosophical depth and genuine feeling, deserves wide circulation.” ~ Leonard Trawick
As the story opens, the dreaming speaker is drawn into an alley strewn with flowers and fruit, which … creates a sense of the forthcoming abundance … From this beginning, the poet journeys outward to her mother as a thousand-faced cup, to her father as a red-haired boy, to the samovar of a great-aunt, who ‘died of having lived.’ I can only congratulate the poet on a fine, heartfelt, delicate.” ~ Lola Haskins Praise for Veronica Patterson’s Previous Work How modest the poet is! Is she really ‘a wing, not flight,’ or is she instead a wing as it fans out to lift into flight and to astonish the onlooker?” ~ Mary Crow A gentle yet keen humor emanates from the stories there poems tell and the stories’ revelation of how ‘pain abrades into self-knowledge.’ ‘nothing’ is life, love, death. “In language spare yet elegant, stylish with a sly wit, Veronica Patterson wryly observes the world around her: the domestic, the everyday, the natural world. Out of the darkness, burdens are lifted, “the sudden white fan of ascent” - these are the concerns of Veronica Patterson’s Collection, a continual journey to the light. ISBN-10: 162549260X Cherry Grove Collections (2018)$18.00 Click here to purchase
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