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Approaching Ice: Poems |  | Author: Elizabeth Bradfield
Publisher: Persea
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0892553553
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9780892553556
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
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“A deft naturalist with a keen eye for details of nature, human and nonhuman. . . . Bradfield’s poems delight.”—San Francisco Chronicle This collection portrays the gripping history of polar exploration by channeling its most notable figures—Symmes, Mawson, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, Byrd, and Shackleton among them. From their perspectives and her own, Elizabeth Bradfield relays the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach the earth’s least-hospitable regions.
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A fine choice and recommended read for poetry lovers looking for something with a different flavor March 19, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
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The arctic has more to it than just huge glaciers. "Approaching Ice" is a collection of poetry from Elizabeth Bradfield, as she focuses on her trip to the arctic circle, serving as a crew's naturalist and what she gathered from her trip. Drawing on her own interests in polar literature, "Approaching Ice" is a fine choice and recommended read for poetry lovers looking for something with a different flavor. "On the Longing of Early Explorers": Before satellites eyed the earth's whole surface/through the peephole of orbit, before/we all were tracked by numbers trailing from us/like a comet's tail -- O if only,/they'd say in quaint accents and obscure/sentence structures -- if only the unsullied/could be discovered, if only, once found,/it could speak its own nobility and let us empathize. Poignant, the despair that itched/beneath their powdered wigs, their longing to touch/the unspoiled, their sense that the world was already ruined.
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