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Stone & Star: Poems in Voices Across Time by Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez is the latest addition in the Old Scratch Press poetry library.
Spanning time from plague-ridden Medieval England to 21st century Texas, and cultures from Ancient Europe to Colonial America, these poems, some written in the voices of historical, legendary and literary figures, attempt to ford the distance in time and space between our modern-day experience and our forebears from the past, both imaginary and real, whose lives were limited by their circumstances. Our lives are all, alternately, bound to the Earth like stones and immeasurable as the stars, as Rilke intimated in his poem "Evening," but through poetry we can sing to each other...
Spanning time from plague-ridden Medieval England to 21st century Texas, and cultures from Ancient Europe to Colonial America, these poems, some written in the voices of historical, legendary and literary figures, attempt to ford the distance in time and space between our modern-day experience and our forebears from the past, both imaginary and real, whose lives were limited by their circumstances. Our lives are all, alternately, bound to the Earth like stones and immeasurable as the stars, as Rilke intimated in his poem "Evening," but through poetry we can sing to each other...