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The Moon Cracks Open
A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems
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The Moon Cracks Open contains 49 poems, 20 of which form the Field Guide: a series of species-specific poems honoring the various birds that have had an impact on Beaudin’s life and understanding of the world. They are arranged following the order used by most bird field guides, but with poetic interpretations of the species (or in most cases, of an individual bird) rather than scientific descriptions. The remaining poems in the collection range in theme from political outrage to lost love, from childhood memories to the quiet reality of growing old – all with a lyrical nod to the natural systems that bind and sustain us all.
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| Meg Kearney, author of An Unkindness of Ravens: | | “Here is a poet with a stolen quill in his hand and birdsong in his heart. Marc Beaudin’s poems dip and swerve and caw; if you listen closely enough, you might just begin to understand that the ache of the human heart can only be translated through the language of crows.” |
| Doug Peacock, author of Walking it Off and Grizzly Years: | “Beaudin delivers another fine collection of poems from the heartland. Like Roethke, the poems are rooted in the soil, sung from thickets and hooted in the night. Unlike Roethke, Beaudin reveals an incipient nomad’s soul with distant mountains tugging at his open heart. This book should best be read at the edge of a swamp or high on a wooded hillside. I haven’t enjoyed such singing since Jim Harrison came west.”
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| William Heyen, author of Crazy Horse in Stillness and Shoah Train, finalist for the National Book Award: | “There's an especially remarkable moment in Marc Beaudin's poem "River Music": He says, after floating in the Cheyenne River, "I hope that the toxins I have absorbed / will leave this river / some small part cleaner, // and will shine on my skin like a mirror." Not only does he want to sacrifice himself for the restoration of the primal but wants us to see ourselves in him, in the body of his work, in poetry itself. The Moon Cracks Open is spoken with such honesty and openness, and written with the blood of such a lyric eye, that we do.”
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| Mike Johnston, bassist with Faruq Z. Bey & the Northwoods Improvisors; host of "Destination Out" on WCMU Public Radio: | “Marc Beaudin's writing circumvents a world that revolves around technical perfection, a world that cannot keep the promises that it makes. Marc is part of an endangered species that never places a technical quality over an inner quality.”
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| Gina Myers, Lame House Press, editor of The Tiny: | "In 'The Things We've Lost (Branta Canadensis),' Beaudin, 'legs heavy with memory,' writes:
And more and more,
life seems to be a series of things lost;
like a leaking bucket that's carried
from a well up a long, meandering trail
till finally, we're home, with only a few drops
to sustain us.
But somehow, that's enough.
These few drops, the memories that exist in place of the past, that fill the absence left by loved ones now deceased and occupy the space of the lover now gone, are the stuff these poems are made of. The lesson being that it is not what was lost that is important, but that which remains. It may seem like little left in the bucket in comparison to what had once been there, but somehow it is enough. Enough to sustain us. For this is not a mournful poetry, but a poetry of life. A delight in and a celebration of life."
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| Yu-Han Chao, Roses & Thorns Book Review: | | “A wonderful poetic ambassador for the birds … The seamless weaving of the human and natural is what makes these poems linger in a reader’s mind long after closing the book.” |
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Celtic Cat:
What do I think of the book? I think that anyone who doesn't own themselves a copy or at the very, very least take a sneak peek into it's contents is missing out on something wonderful. Marc is above and beyond gifted in the talent department and his pieces transport you. He's given me the gift of seeing the world through his eyes... and it's one of the best gifts I've ever received. Do yourself a favor and BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!
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Do You Want a Good Man? |
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