The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand

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The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand is written by M. Travis Lane and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1554580250 (ISBN 10) and 9781554580255 (ISBN 13).

This collection of thirty-five of Lane's best poems is selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive nature of 'home' in both historical and present contexts and reflect on the identity of the woman poet and what it means to be a writer. Lane's poems exhibit impressive range and variety -- long poems, short lyrics, serial poems, poems inspired by visual art -- and are richly attentive to the landscapes, both urban and wild. In her introduction 'As Opportunity for Grace, This Life May Serve', editor Jeanette Lynes discusses how Lane's poetry integrates an eco-poetic vision with explorations of the artist's task of mapping her world. Lane's afterword reinforces her sense of the poet's project as a form of mystical play, a search for patterns in the 'unified disunities' of all things.