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Exploring This Terrain

Paperback |English |164060376X | 9781640603769

Exploring This Terrain

Paperback |English |164060376X | 9781640603769
Overview

Margaret B. Ingraham's collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increasingly regarded as a virtue and distraction is its inevitable consequence, each of these poems offers escape and consolation. One by one they invite the reader to be still, to observe, to listen, to "taste and see" - and ultimately to experience the wonder that only attention can discover hiding in the thin places within the various terrains of our everyday lives. "What is the terrain that Margaret Ingraham explores in Exploring this Terrain? It ranges from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Pluto. The path crosses the trails of memory and illness, the natural world and disintegration, and various parts unseen. Yet it stays, as Margaret says near the end of the book, in the 'secret places of my brokenness.' It is the beautiful landscape of wonder, the uneven country of love, the difficult ground of faith." --Loren Graham, author of Places I Was Dreaming.
ISBN: 164060376X
ISBN13: 9781640603769
Author: Margaret B. Ingraham
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2020
Language: English
PageCount: 128
Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 4.8 ounces

Margaret B. Ingraham's collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increasingly regarded as a virtue and distraction is its inevitable consequence, each of these poems offers escape and consolation. One by one they invite the reader to be still, to observe, to listen, to "taste and see" - and ultimately to experience the wonder that only attention can discover hiding in the thin places within the various terrains of our everyday lives. "What is the terrain that Margaret Ingraham explores in Exploring this Terrain? It ranges from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Pluto. The path crosses the trails of memory and illness, the natural world and disintegration, and various parts unseen. Yet it stays, as Margaret says near the end of the book, in the 'secret places of my brokenness.' It is the beautiful landscape of wonder, the uneven country of love, the difficult ground of faith." --Loren Graham, author of Places I Was Dreaming.
Editorial Reviews

"If attention is a kind of love, then Margaret B. Ingraham loves the Shenandoah landscape--the 'waters/clucking softly on the rocks' and the 'pillar of cloud' above. 'It is all about light, ' she writes, and we are lucky indeed to bask in her mind's light in these lush, meditative poems." --Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones

"There is something of Elizabeth Bishop in this new collection by Margaret B. Ingraham. Her remarkable eye and close consideration of landscape reveal a deeper mystery beneath it all. She never flinches. In her poem "Ordinary Time," she writes, 'In this light I question how to hold/blessings such as these in trembling/hands [...]' These poems are full of such blessings--each complicated in its own delightful way. Exploring this Terrain possesses a rare lived wisdom and we would do well to listen." --Michael Shewmaker, author of Penumbra. "Margaret Ingraham's poetry is a wake up call... as if to say, 'Wake up to what is around you!' She sees so clearly that her poems make me aware of my own cloudy vision and stir a yearning to see with a poet's eye." --Hattie Kauffman, author of Falling into Place. "Margaret B. Ingraham knows that sometimes the world gives us no options; we chose what we must. In seeing and naming this 'inexorable slide' she admits grace and shapes beauty, silently evoking the Isaiah poet. When Ingraham asks such questions as, 'was it the wind that taught the wolf/ to howl or did the wolf give voice to the wind/and could you hear it then...?' the poetry of Job, too, seems to alight on the page. Ingraham's formal lyricism, love of the pastoral, and overheard conversations stand in the revered tradition of Robert Frost. She is a poet who knows 'there...is no synonym for light' yet still she writes, understanding that contemporary poets are still makers and holding to the abiding truth that wisdom might just be found in seeking to name and praise the light." --Dana Littlepage Smith, author of Women Clothed With the Sun "Through its rhymes, meter, and (lightly placed) biblical framework, Exploring this Terrain means to comfort. Braiding earnest religious longing into the memories and observations of an entirely earthly terrain, Ingraham's poems hold the lushness and ease of the rural South. But the light they so often praise has a vaster scope, and "is all about... / the way it seeks a silhouette, / the way it can transform / the rough and round / to smooth and plain." This book's impulse is, above all, a generous one." --Taije Silverman, author of Houses Are Fields

Margaret B. Ingraham, a poet and photographer, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and "grew up" exploring the woods behind her childhood home. She is the author of a poetry chapbook Proper Words for Birds (Finishing Line Press), nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Award in poetry, and of This Holy Alphabet (Paraclete Press), lyric poems adapted from her own translation from the Hebrew of Psalm 119. Ingraham is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, a Sam Ragan Prize and numerous residential Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has twice collaborated with composer Gary Davison, most notably to create "Shadow Tides," a choral symphony commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and performed on that date in Washington, DC. Ingraham lives in Alexandria, VA.
 
Margaret B. Ingraham, a poet and photographer, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and "grew up" exploring the woods behind her childhood home. She is the author of a poetry chapbook Proper Words for Birds (Finishing Line Press), nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Award in poetry, and of This Holy Alphabet (Paraclete Press), lyric poems adapted from her own translation from the Hebrew of Psalm 119. Ingraham is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, a Sam Ragan Prize and numerous residential Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has twice collaborated with composer Gary Davison, most notably to create "Shadow Tides," a choral symphony commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and performed on that date in Washington, DC. Ingraham lives in Alexandria, VA.

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Overview

Margaret B. Ingraham's collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increasingly regarded as a virtue and distraction is its inevitable consequence, each of these poems offers escape and consolation. One by one they invite the reader to be still, to observe, to listen, to "taste and see" - and ultimately to experience the wonder that only attention can discover hiding in the thin places within the various terrains of our everyday lives. "What is the terrain that Margaret Ingraham explores in Exploring this Terrain? It ranges from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Pluto. The path crosses the trails of memory and illness, the natural world and disintegration, and various parts unseen. Yet it stays, as Margaret says near the end of the book, in the 'secret places of my brokenness.' It is the beautiful landscape of wonder, the uneven country of love, the difficult ground of faith." --Loren Graham, author of Places I Was Dreaming.
ISBN: 164060376X
ISBN13: 9781640603769
Author: Margaret B. Ingraham
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2020
Language: English
PageCount: 128
Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 4.8 ounces

Margaret B. Ingraham's collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increasingly regarded as a virtue and distraction is its inevitable consequence, each of these poems offers escape and consolation. One by one they invite the reader to be still, to observe, to listen, to "taste and see" - and ultimately to experience the wonder that only attention can discover hiding in the thin places within the various terrains of our everyday lives. "What is the terrain that Margaret Ingraham explores in Exploring this Terrain? It ranges from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Pluto. The path crosses the trails of memory and illness, the natural world and disintegration, and various parts unseen. Yet it stays, as Margaret says near the end of the book, in the 'secret places of my brokenness.' It is the beautiful landscape of wonder, the uneven country of love, the difficult ground of faith." --Loren Graham, author of Places I Was Dreaming.
Editorial Reviews

"If attention is a kind of love, then Margaret B. Ingraham loves the Shenandoah landscape--the 'waters/clucking softly on the rocks' and the 'pillar of cloud' above. 'It is all about light, ' she writes, and we are lucky indeed to bask in her mind's light in these lush, meditative poems." --Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones

"There is something of Elizabeth Bishop in this new collection by Margaret B. Ingraham. Her remarkable eye and close consideration of landscape reveal a deeper mystery beneath it all. She never flinches. In her poem "Ordinary Time," she writes, 'In this light I question how to hold/blessings such as these in trembling/hands [...]' These poems are full of such blessings--each complicated in its own delightful way. Exploring this Terrain possesses a rare lived wisdom and we would do well to listen." --Michael Shewmaker, author of Penumbra. "Margaret Ingraham's poetry is a wake up call... as if to say, 'Wake up to what is around you!' She sees so clearly that her poems make me aware of my own cloudy vision and stir a yearning to see with a poet's eye." --Hattie Kauffman, author of Falling into Place. "Margaret B. Ingraham knows that sometimes the world gives us no options; we chose what we must. In seeing and naming this 'inexorable slide' she admits grace and shapes beauty, silently evoking the Isaiah poet. When Ingraham asks such questions as, 'was it the wind that taught the wolf/ to howl or did the wolf give voice to the wind/and could you hear it then...?' the poetry of Job, too, seems to alight on the page. Ingraham's formal lyricism, love of the pastoral, and overheard conversations stand in the revered tradition of Robert Frost. She is a poet who knows 'there...is no synonym for light' yet still she writes, understanding that contemporary poets are still makers and holding to the abiding truth that wisdom might just be found in seeking to name and praise the light." --Dana Littlepage Smith, author of Women Clothed With the Sun "Through its rhymes, meter, and (lightly placed) biblical framework, Exploring this Terrain means to comfort. Braiding earnest religious longing into the memories and observations of an entirely earthly terrain, Ingraham's poems hold the lushness and ease of the rural South. But the light they so often praise has a vaster scope, and "is all about... / the way it seeks a silhouette, / the way it can transform / the rough and round / to smooth and plain." This book's impulse is, above all, a generous one." --Taije Silverman, author of Houses Are Fields

Margaret B. Ingraham, a poet and photographer, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and "grew up" exploring the woods behind her childhood home. She is the author of a poetry chapbook Proper Words for Birds (Finishing Line Press), nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Award in poetry, and of This Holy Alphabet (Paraclete Press), lyric poems adapted from her own translation from the Hebrew of Psalm 119. Ingraham is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, a Sam Ragan Prize and numerous residential Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has twice collaborated with composer Gary Davison, most notably to create "Shadow Tides," a choral symphony commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and performed on that date in Washington, DC. Ingraham lives in Alexandria, VA.
 
Margaret B. Ingraham, a poet and photographer, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and "grew up" exploring the woods behind her childhood home. She is the author of a poetry chapbook Proper Words for Birds (Finishing Line Press), nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Award in poetry, and of This Holy Alphabet (Paraclete Press), lyric poems adapted from her own translation from the Hebrew of Psalm 119. Ingraham is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, a Sam Ragan Prize and numerous residential Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has twice collaborated with composer Gary Davison, most notably to create "Shadow Tides," a choral symphony commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and performed on that date in Washington, DC. Ingraham lives in Alexandria, VA.

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  • Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable.

Note: Some electronic material access codes are valid only for one user. For this reason, used books, including books listed in the Used – Like New condition, may not come with functional electronic material access codes.

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The usual time for processing an order is 24 hours (1 business day), but may vary depending on the availability of products ordered. This period excludes delivery times, which depend on your geographic location.

Estimated delivery times:

  • Standard Shipping: 5-8 business days
  • Expedited Shipping: 3-5 business days

Shipping method varies depending on what is being shipped.  

Tracking
All orders are shipped with a tracking number. Once your order has left our warehouse, a confirmation e-mail with a tracking number will be sent to you. You will be able to track your package at all times. 

Damaged Parcel
If your package has been delivered in a PO Box, please note that we are not responsible for any damage that may result (consequences of extreme temperatures, theft, etc.). 

If you have any questions regarding shipping or want to know about the status of an order, please contact us or email to support@stevensbooks.com.

You may return most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

Additional non-returnable items:

  • Gift cards
  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)

  • Book with obvious signs of use
  • CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened
  • Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
  • Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery

Items returned to us as a result of our error will receive a full refund,some returns may be subject to a restocking fee of 7% of the total item price, please contact a customer care team member to see if your return is subject. Returns that arrived on time and were as described are subject to a restocking fee.

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If the item is returned to us for any of the following reasons, a 15% restocking fee will be applied to your refund total and you will be asked to pay for return shipping:

  • Item(s) no longer needed or wanted.
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If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order.


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