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 Patricia Clark is an award-winning poet who is a Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, Michigan. The Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan from 2... Click here for more information. |
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North of Wondering BACK IN PRINT
Reviews "These poems have arrived at the page over a great distance and distillation of experience and after the patience and clarifications of time. They are the work of wonder, acceptance, and maturity of means—nothing wasted, nothing worth saying denied. The greatest pleasure in Patricia Clark's first collection is just how good and necessary the writing and how achieved the heart of the matter is." - Stanley Plumly "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 countours of wondering,
as if the word itself were a
small town, or a particular
region, somewhere, that she
wanted us to experience in
all its complexity, from the
nuances of questioning to
marveling. The poems, while
seeming to mosey to their
destinations, create such
suspense and pleasure in the
turnings of the lines, the
leaps and connections of the
mind and heart, that we hurry
down the page. Their
superbly crafted, supple, and
wise progression reminds us
that the best poems are about
more than once voice; they
are also about vision.
Without question, this is a
wonderful first collection." - Mary Stewart Hammond "North of Wondering is
a collection of poetry that
provides an
excellent introductory debut
to a major new literary
talent. Patricia
Clark combines a gift of
expression with an insightful
ability to establish an
emotive rapport with her
reader through lyrical verse
that sings with imagery,
humanity, and place."
— Midwest Book Review -
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