Unbound

A debut collection that re-enchants our eyes and hearts to the sublime wonders of our precarious natural world. Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment. __Unbound__ stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst the astonishing beauty and wisdom of an Earth facing the early stages of climate change. inside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spool Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment. Touching on human frailty, the eternal, and the ecological with a delicate and evocative brush, Unbound enacts an almost prayerful attentiveness to the earth's creatures and landscapes while it offers both mournful and humorous treatments of love and loss. McIntire's finely tuned musical voice – with its incantatory rhythms, rhymes, sound play, and entrancing double meanings – invites us to be courageously open to the unexpected. Unbound stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst the astonishing beauty and wisdom of an Earth facing the early stages of climate change. "Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment. Touching on human frailty, the eternal, and the ecological with a delicate and evocative brush, Unbound enacts an almost prayerful attentiveness to the earth's creatures and landscapes while it offers both mournful and humorous treatments of love and loss. McIntire's finely tuned musical voice - with its incantatory rhythms, rhymes, sound play, and entrancing double meanings - invites us to be courageously open to the unexpected. Unbound stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst the astonishing beauty and wisdom of an Earth facing the early stages of climate change."-- Provided by publisher Cover Copyright Contents Memory Child Speed Banff Guest On Being Close to Dyingat Age Eighty-Seven Break Through Leaving Words Jagged Vermont Bridge October Summer Meridian The Language of Trees Silver Point Lift Up the Chest of Myrrh Shadowland Edgewater It is You Fire A Description of an Approaching Hurricane, Toronto Garbage Lakeside If You Would Please Fancy Vancouver Mountain Parisian Home The Magical Name Watershed Champs Elysées Ithaca Hush Music and the Moon Fall The Black-Capped Chickadee At Sea Our Time Upstairs Give Unblown Conception After a Walk with Trees Spring Today Verge Sparrow Cringe November Winter’s Waiting I Winter’s Waiting II On the Rose Garden at ubc Sylvan Signals and the Moon Small Hands Acknowledgments