Weather (VQR Poetry)

by Dave Lucas (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $26.47

  In this debut collection, Dave Lucas turns and returns to Cleveland, where he was raised. The weather of these poems arises from both the lush light of the natural world and the hard rain of industry. Poem by poem, the book surveys the majesty and ruin of landscape and lakefront, paying tribute to the shifting seasons of a city, of a terrain, and of those who dwell there. At the Cuyahoga Flats Here, in the river's oxbow-bend and silt,the muddy unmarked grave of Republic Steel.Here is the elegy to ore and pellet:inertial loaders, the quiet of the mill.See how deliberate the passing barge-as if somewhere hotter furnaces are lit.Rust in the water and reclining drawbridge:oxide and spall, the color of ash at sunset.