I Will Say Beauty

The thrilling new collection from the Pushcart Prize-winning poet

"I will say beauty," Carol Frost boldly says in one of her new lyrical poems, beauty being for her and all of us elusive-in and out of nature. The phrase is meant as a cri de coeur, and the poems are arranged to offer a fresh way to look at--and exist within--nature. For Frost, beauty is a far cry from the decorous and social.

Frost sets many of these poems in Florida's Cedar Keys, amidst the nesting areas of birds, cottonmouth snakes, wetlands, and tidal rhythms. The reader undertakes a journey through a tropical summer, where strange scents and sounds are signs of the transient beauties the imagination may possess for a moment. Drawing brilliantly from nature and from art, from the rhythms of life and the furies of emotion, Frost rejects standard responses and dares to ask: how do we perceive the world? When is beauty not enough? Can we imagine Paradise? And, when nature ordains that death must come, and we weaken, how do we die?


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Published: 05/14/2003
ISBN: 9780810151390
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.86h x 7.12w x 0.28d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2003 pg. 1366
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 57
Library Journal 06/01/2003 pg. 126
Women's Review of Books 01/01/2004 pg. 17
Library Journal 04/15/2006 pg. 81