What Shines Lea Sydney
What Shines Lea Sydney Retrospective of a long life and already inimitable career in poetry, Sydney Lea's What Shines asserts and asks in equal measure. But he also transmits the escalating urgency…
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What Shines Lea Sydney
Retrospective of a long life and already inimitable career in poetry, Sydney Lea's What Shines asserts and asks in equal measure. But he also transmits the escalating urgency of answering the fundamental question: at this late hour, what light do we have to see by? In older age, Lea affirms the luster of fruit long labored for: a resilient and happy marriage; the rewards of parenthood and, later, grandchildren; a profound intimacy with northern New England -- the environment, the seasons, the people, home, time.
In "1949," Lea revisits old photographs: one of his parents "both grinning straight at the Kodak, / an elm, not yet blighted to death, at their backs," another of his mother standing beside a bucket of sunfish. What light will outlast us? "With what I've known, you'd think there'd be chapter on chapter," he says, everything habitual, familiar.
Still he stumbles upon