Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars: Poems, a collection by Patricia Clark published in 2020, seems at first glance to be about nature. It includes poems about river birches, birds like hawks and mallards, gardens, moths, bees, spiders, the orca whale, and more. Even the poems not directly about nature touch upon the subject or theme in some way.
And yet, as you read and speak some of the poems aloud, you at first sense and then see that these are not nature poems. They may use nature as a subject, they may display nature in all its wonder and diversity, but they are definitely not nature poems. Nature may be the frame or the stage, but Clark is writing about life.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
The Raven – poem by Edgar Alllan Poe at The Imaginative Conservative.
Requiem – poem by David Whyte.
A Conversation with Jared Cater, Part 2 – Sunil Iyengar at New Verse Review.
Autumn Damask – poem by Sandra Marchetti at Every Day Poems.
“Low Barometer,” poem by Robert Bridges – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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