Pearly Everlasting
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9780807125434
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry; American - General; American
Description: "In Pearly Everlasting, Thomas Reiter crafts authentic lives, both autobiographical and fictional, historical and contemporary, across a wide range of locales, maintaining a steady focus on the lore of occupations while revealing the speakers' crucial connection to the natural world.

These poems come in earthtones - the colors of strenuous labor; dried flowers from a midwestern prairie; a centuries-old bone newly uncovered; the surf and sky, gold and coral deposits, of the West Indies; the pure soul of a freshly thawed stream; and pepperbush, Indian pipes, yellow gorse, anemones, pearly everlasting, spoken as lovingly as children's names."--BOOK JACKET.