In Glad Wilderness Geraldine Cannon has woven an Appalachian tapestry
of voices and images that are somehow at once clear as a swimming
hole and as suggestive as an impressionist painting: "His skin
develops Braille as he breathes me in." Her mode is not formal until
the end of the series where she has written three triolets, of all
things, that are three of the best triolets I have ever read.
Completely unexpected, and perfectly delightful. Lewis Turco,
Poet/Scholar, author of The Book of Forms, 3rd ed. (University Press
of New England, 2000) Geraldine Cannon's many voices in this
collection form a choir, each poem a soloist in turn, while the
others hum and clap around it. In the virtuosic story-telling of her
Southern personae, a world comes vibrantly into focus. In addition to
her narrative gifts, Cannon gives us imagery that stuns with its
originality and its rightness. Here is the marvelous close of the
first poem in the book: "We are left / with so many wrinkles / if we
could spread our skin out, / we could glide." Susan Ludvigson, Poet,
author of Escaping the House of Certainty: Poems (Louisiana State
University Press, 2006) Geraldine Cannon relies confidently on adroit
observation and direct language unadorned by rarified reference or
elaborate trope. She sees, she feels, she helps us home, to refresh
ourselves with uncanny gladness in a wilderness of new experience.
Time and again her poems lift us into the affecting and infectious
realization of poetry's power to create "Unmeasured Time" and say to
us, as her wise voice often does, "I am as full of wonder now as
you." Michael Heffernan, Poet, author of The Night Breeze off the
Ocean: Poems (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005)
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