Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. A poetry of genuine ambition reaches as far into the past as it does into the future, creates its forward motion by radicalizing its relation to tradition. What is 'the news' remains always in the present tense. This wisdom, in part, drives Timothy David Orme's work--drives it, pushes it, but does not fully explain it. The world is the news, so are the flowers, and so are the birds. How we gain word of these facts, these facts in which we exist, these facts we share with the poet, is by a language fraught with undoing that which it would express. Here is Romanticism's doubled-edge, held always against the throat of the singer. In these poems--in which the candle enjoys its own burning, in which the nightingale sings to expand its voice--there is innocence without naivete. The singer is one who sings. Orme knows this: he is a singer. That singing, it is a celebration, yes--but it is a celebration rebounding into consequence. Each syllable offers us its ethic inside of the song--Dan Beachy-Quick.
