A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.
In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies-the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river-ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him.
Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is -a museum for what-s gone- and a heart is -the sound of the wind seething,- there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: -the song of the falling water and wild birds.-
With incredible poetic precision, this collection is an offering-to come back to yourself and to lose yourself in sight, sound and sense. Playi
