{"id":2333,"date":"2013-08-21T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2333"},"modified":"2022-12-22T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:07:37","slug":"holding-ground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/holding-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-28-4<\/p>\n

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Holding Ground<\/em><\/h1>\n

Bruce Willard<\/h2>\n

The poems in\u00a0Holding Ground<\/em>\u00a0reveal the journey of one man, and yet, these poems speak to us all\u2014or at least anyone who has ever \u201cfelt wasted by his desires,\u201d who has ever been \u201ctired of wanting, \/ tired of morning, \/ tired of the way the ocean waits \/ for the sun to set.\u201d With precise control of language, Willard pulls a myriad of emotions out of seemingly simple scenes: \u201cNight blows between the frames of houses, \/ winding, unwinding clotheslines, between \/ pant legs, between sleeves, between selves.\u201d Within the various \u201cselves\u201d of these poems, we see a speaker whose journey stretches beyond the last poem of this collection and reaches out into the world.<\/p>\n

Often rooted in nature, these poems are written from a precipice, sometimes tense like \u201cridges of pressure \/ advancing,\u201d sometimes throbbing in the quiet space before the howl of the storm: \u201cLet\u2019s look for shelter<\/em>, he said.\u201d The effect is an atmosphere of yearning, of earnest searching to understand the simple moments in life, to answer the question, \u201cHow do I come to know anything?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

“Intimate,” from Holding Ground<\/em>:<\/p>\n

All day I have been trying to say something\nabout something without talking\nabout the thing itself.\n\nHere's a bed of fresh-cut, green grass,<\/pre>\n
here’s a blanket of warm sunlight, here’s my sound; mouth it gently. Please don’t forget me.<\/div>\n
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