The Literary Review, March 22nd, 2001
Vivian Shipley, Fair Haven. Mobile, AL: Negative Capability Press, 2000 "... This was a song we had each heard in language / needing no translation; the grey notes of the squirrel, / of the dove were the words for a requiem we could share." These lines, which conclude Vivian Shipley's Fair Haven, reiterate the themes uniting the poems in her latest collection. The essential words are "requiem" and "share," and the agency of the natural world--plants, flowers, birds, animals, the land itself--is integral to that sharing. No matter how much we suffer, how much we lose, how much we are denied, w...
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