I Say the Sky: Poems (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

In poems at once profound and accessible, Nadia Colburn finds splendor and astonishment in a natural world―and a human world―that is deeply troubled yet still majestically beautiful. Both elegy and celebration, I Say the Sky addresses some of the most challenging aspects of human existence, from childhood trauma to environmental devastation, and discovers, in unexpected and clear-sighted ways, wisdom, wonder, and peace. Colburn's brilliant second book charts a journey to meet the self. From girlhood to parenthood, loss to discovery, in poems that sing, the book explores how meaning is made. Claiming the female voice from silence, the poems find their grounding in the body and achieve rootedness and hope. I Say the Sky is a meditative and ultimately inspiring book that will be savored by seasoned readers as well as those new to poetry. Cover Praise for I Say the Sky Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Dedication Epigraph Contents I Think It Is Such a Beautiful Upflying Smaller Even than Last Week The End of History Adulthood 4 a.m. The Physical World Anxiety What We Are Taught Memory And the Small Body Catalog of Beautiful Girls Stone Girl Sleeping Beauty Rage Knowing Reading to My Daughter Know On My 43rd Birthday Summer Evening Hands Teach Me On the Shortest Day of the Year March Imaginary World My Throat Outside the Sparrows Are Awake Happiness 6 p.m. Invocation When Death Comes August Arrival Onion Today Like Yesterday Amid So Much Suffering, Do I Dare Be Happy? Midwinter Power May I Greet You Rain Pours off the Eaves of the House 12 a.m. You Postscript Acknowledgments Series page