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| Book: | Bears Dancing in the Northern Air |
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| Author: | Christiane Jacox Kyle |
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| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
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“What matters to me in these poems is the dramatic and startling way our daily lives belong to this world, the way moments, days, years carry some reminder of a larger universe. In the Old Testament, pride and despair are the twin poles of illusion marking when the people have lost their way-pride when they see themselves larger than life, despair when too insignificant, a thing apart. Both are mitigated in the wilderness, where their voice listens and is heard on earth and in the heavens.”
