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Others have written as follows: “Thinking cosmically and experiencing with uncommon immediacy, Polly Brody writes in a lush, finely tuned lyrical voice thrumming with the music of spheres we know and those beyond. In her ecstatic, scientific mysticism, the natural world finds a crucial advocate, and we a writer of eye-opening, soul-amplifying power. —Susan Deborah King Polly Brody has supplied us with a valid passport to our own lives, past and present. In The Burning Bush she extends an eloquent invitation to recall the honesty of childhood and to celebrate the way it reveals itself in our adult experience. —William T. S. Butler We easily understand the enthusiasm of such reactions to these essays and poems when we encounter passages like the following : “Instantly, out of the sky’s vault, the hummingbird plummeted to hover, gem-like, just beyond my fingertips. Breeze from its whirring wings tingled my fingers. How can it be said? I felt a crystalline yes! Yes to this wild bird, energetic as an emerald cloud of electrons and I by it transformed, the atom’s positive center. Yes to impulse, to the gesture without thought, to the instantaneous response.”
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BOOK STATISTICS ISBN: 0-9762091-5-2 |
Polly Brody received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Mount Holyoke College, and after returning to school in mid-life, earned a Masters Degree in Biology from Southern Connecticut State University. A resident of Southbury, Connecticut, she has traveled widely in Europe, East Africa, Australia and South America. As a biologist and experienced field ornithologist, she lectures on animal behavior and has created seminars on that subject. She has been an active advocate for the environment, and while chairing the Newtown Conservation Commission, she helped preserve 790 acres of prime woodland. Polly Brody is the author of an earlier poetry collection entitled Other Nations, has been published in many literary journals, and in 1998 was a finalist in the New Millennium Writings competition. A frequent reader at venues throughout Connecticut, in 1994 she was selected to read at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and has been a presenting poet in the New England Foundation for the Humanities series, After Frost: Poetry in New England.
OmphalosI walk downslope to your darkness |
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