The Receipt

by Trish Reeves

Overview

In The Receipt, poetry blends with history and its lessons in a tribute to the human spirit. Reeves's poems are a receipt for life lived through the ages. Whether pre-cataclysmic Pompeii, Michelangelo on horseback to Bologna, or a plague doctor's first encounter with Angel Island, Reeves's fine eye, ear, and imagination find the imagery, metaphors, and language to create rhythms of history.

 

Reviews

 

Grief and love flicker at the hot center of Trish Reeves's The Receipt. In this lush, painterly book, Reeves investigates the records of things we leave behind and the "lash of memory." The speaker of these poems is at once anthropologist, curatorial researcher, and contemplative being who examines legacies of "gifts and grief." Reeves's kaleidoscopic communion with Turner, Lao-Tzu, medical photographs, and family heirlooms serves as metaphor for the fleetingness of life and the fracture of stories, which Reeves captures through acute observation and expansive vision. In a gorgeous and generous gesture, the speaker imagines a room painted Delacroix blue, "sending away the shadows." Reeves's newest collection beckons us into the glimmering light of these poems.

—Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of The New Nudity

 

To open the pages of Reeves's The Receipt is to open the ancient mouth of the carnyx and loose the splendid roar of poetry above the crowds. These are poems of love, place, and history—musical, painterly, and photographic. But unlike the roar of the carnyx, meant to incite the masses to war, Reeves's poems incite us to live emphatically.

—James Thomas Stevens, author of The Golden Book and A Bridge Dead in the Water

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166895684
Publisher:	Cynren Press
Publication date:	04/11/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Trish Reeves has received numerous awards for her poetry, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellowship, a Keck Fellowship (Sarah Lawrence College), and a Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship. Her first book, Returning the Question, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. Her poems have been anthologized and published in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, New Letters, Seneca Review, Prairie Schooner, and Leon Literary Review. Her short fiction has been published in First Intensity and New Letters. Reeves leads Changing Lives through Literature for Johnson County Corrections and is a Kansas Humanities Scholar in Literature. She lives in Prairie Village, Kansas, and taught for twenty-one years at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. She holds a BJ in journalism from the University of Missouri and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.

Editorial Reviews

Grief and love flicker at the hot center of Trish Reeves's The Receipt. In this lush, painterly book, Reeves investigates the records of things we leave behind and the "lash of memory." The speaker of these poems is at once anthropologist, curatorial researcher, and contemplative being who examines legacies of "gifts and grief." Reeves's kaleidoscopic communion with Turner, Lao-Tzu, medical photographs, and family heirlooms serves as metaphor for the fleetingness of life and the fracture of stories, which Reeves captures through acute observation and expansive vision. In a gorgeous and generous gesture, the speaker imagines a room painted Delacroix blue, "sending away the shadows." Reeves's newest collection beckons us into the glimmering light of these poems.

-Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of The New Nudity

To open the pages of Reeves's The Receipt is to open the ancient mouth of the carnyx and loose the splendid roar of poetry above the crowds. These are poems of love, place, and history-musical, painterly, and photographic. But unlike the roar of the carnyx, meant to incite the masses to war, Reeves's poems incite us to live emphatically.

-James Thomas Stevens, author of The Golden Book and A Bridge Dead in the Water

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