Looking through Stone: Poems about the Earth by Susan loannou

摘要

It might not be apparent by reading this magazine, but I am a lover of poetry, particularly verse, engendered by being read nursery rhymes and poems by my mother when I was a child, and reinforced by reading them to my own children. I was therefore pleased to receive my own review copy of a recently published Canadian poetry book on the theme of rocks, miner-In "Mineralogy Lesson": ... I believe: the inanimate is prickly with soul, or why do its ions attract, heat rising, and fasten on others faster and faster? Isn't that love? "It's physics," he insists. "Physics." -unaware he blushes. In "Prospector" written for Eira Thomas: That night, she changes the locks to the core-sample tent, unplugs computers, and cuts the telephone line. Under her pillow, pried from a kimberlite length, grinning, she stashes a 2-carat stunner, mark of the highest grade cluster of diamond pipes in the world: 138 million carats.