LEADER 03890nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910454127603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96614-2 010 $a9786611966140 010 $a0-226-64417-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226644172 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579327 035 $a(EBL)408470 035 $a(OCoLC)476229219 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000251490 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11939242 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000251490 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10171134 035 $a(PQKB)10657299 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408470 035 $a(DE-B1597)522730 035 $a(OCoLC)646784275 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226644172 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408470 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265993 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196614 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579327 100 $a20070924d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStill here, still now$b[electronic resource] /$fRobert Pack 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (157 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-64415-4 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tI. FOR YOU AND YOU --$tII. SHORT AND TALL TALES --$tIII. MEDITATIONS AND FOREBODINGS --$tIV. LANDSCAPES AND SELF-PORTRAITS --$tV. TWO EPILOGUES 330 $aRobert Pack is one of America's most eminent nature poets, and his virtuoso talents are on glorious display in Still Here, Still Now, his nineteenth volume of verse. With styles ranging from lyric to narrative, and themes stretching from biblical concerns to meditations on contemporary science, Pack's poetry is composed in strongly rhythmic cadences and a diction that is direct and accessible. In four different sections of thematically and stylistically divergent verse, Still Here, Still Now delivers many of the elements of Pack's poetry readers have come to admire and expect-both the humorous and the elegiac. The first section of the book contains traditional lyrics that celebrate family ties and seek consolations for the passing of personal and evolutionary time. The poems in this group address a named or unnamed auditor in a voice of intimate engagement. Featuring the most narrative selections in the book, the second section consists of fable-like stories, rich with innuendo and implication. The characters in these poems make choices that press against the events and circumstances that challenge and define them. Embodying what Harold Bloom has called Pack's "courage to surmount suffering," the poems of the third section are largely devoted to biblical themes and philosophical speculations on the meaning of happiness and the uses of suffering. Here, Pack's empathy for the human condition as well as his forebodings about the prospect of human survival are on poignant display. The final section of the book turns to Pack's abiding interest in landscape and the ways in which the place one inhabits contains and animates our individual lives. Ripe with many years, Pack remains a vital presence in American letters. Still Here, Still Now is an affecting and graceful addition to the oeuvre of a poet whose compelling and distinct voice will continue to resonate among his loyal readers. 606 $aFamilies$vPoetry 606 $aHappiness$vPoetry 606 $aSuffering$vPoetry 606 $aNature$vPoetry 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFamilies 615 0$aHappiness 615 0$aSuffering 615 0$aNature 676 $a811/.54 700 $aPack$b Robert$f1929-$0196410 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454127603321 996 $aStill here, still now$92198916 997 $aUNINA