Recluse Freedom
John Leax
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Subject Category: Poetry
Length: 128 pages
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Binding: paper
Published: April 2012
ISBN: 978-1-60226-012-2
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In Recluse Freedom, a collection of new poems written from 1990 to 2010, John Leax offers a human history of family, community, and nation in conversation with a spiritual history—imagined, experienced and revealed. Readers who have already discovered Leax will welcome this new book. And, for others, Recluse Freedom provides a fresh and rewarding introduction to this poet of the "still, small voice." "His best poems to date," writes reviewer Thom Satterlee in Books & Culture.
Book Excerpts
 Seven Poems [PDF]
Table of Contents
Considered from a Certain Aspect
WRITING HOME
Home
Homecoming
Family Story
The Body of the Lord
Words
Sorrow
Marriage
19 Torpey Street
The Garden
The Woods
BRIGHT WINGS
Dance
Landscape with Crows
Spring Herons
A Bird in the Hand
Two Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks
Orioles
Surprise
A Crow in Light
Faith in a Seed
Bright Wings
Great Horned Owl
RECLUSE: AN ADIRONDACK IDYLL
Recluse
Star Lake Night
Eclipse
Praying the Psalms in Adirondack Park
Meeting the Bear
Life List
Climbing Arab in My Sleep
Matins
Mountain Literature
Bear Mountain
Star Lake Morning
Benson Mines
The Upshot
Proximate Thoughts
WALKING THE RIDGE HOME
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
FLAT MOUNTAIN POEMS
Flat Mountain Lost and Found
On Flat Mountain Summit with Josie and Ernie
While Massaging My Arthritic Hands, I Consider the Advice of St. Augustine
A Scrap of Paper
Late Night: Thinking of William Carlos Williams, I Remember the Red Wheelbarrow and the Old Statue of St. Francis in the Shed
Floating the River
Wanting a Friend in Perilous Times
Hand in Hand with the Daemon Meridianus
4 A.M. Meditation on the Baptism of Christ
Walking Beside the River the Afternoon of the Autumnal Equinox
The Night of the Hunter's Moon
On the Morning after the Killing Frost, I Discover Myself Almost Happy
Awake in the Eternal Present
Walking the Circuit around the Cornfield I Walk Every Day, I Glimpse the Nature of Creation and Submit to Joy
In Flat Mountain Garden, the Word Becomes Flesh
Invitation from Flat Mountain
Flat Mountain Dream
Waiting for Rain, I Remember Three Old Poets Who Wandered the Slopes of Flat Mountain in My Youth
Flat Mountain Folly
A Casual Account of My Life at War at Mouth of the Creek
Recluse Freedom
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