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    White Ermine Across Her Shoulders
    White Ermine Across Her Shoulders
    White Ermine Across Her Shoulders
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    White Ermine Across Her Shoulders

    By Ethel Mortenson Davis

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    White Ermine Across Her Shoulders has all the elements expected by readers of Ethel Mortenson Daviss poetry. The lines are highly imagistic and intense. Descriptions of the earths beauty are intermingled with comments, sometimes caustic, about the human experience. Often a music rises that is both emotional and filled with language and insights that remain in the memory long after the book has been put down. This, Daviss second volume, speaks eloquently about Kevin Michael Davis, her son who died of cancer in 2010 in Poughkeepsie, NY, and touches on other family relationships, making some of the poems more personal than those she has published before. These poems are balanced with an understanding of the universe and all of its creatures that encompasses both delight and wisdom. What makes this collection appealing is an intellectual depth that resonates, in the way of Emily Dickenson, with the imagistic and emotional core that has always been a hallmark of Daviss poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateDec 13, 2011
    ISBN9781462058228
    White Ermine Across Her Shoulders
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    Ethel Mortenson Davis

    Ethel Mortenson Davis lives in the mountain community of Continental Divide, NM. She has published one other book of poetry, I Sleep Between the Moons of New Mexico. Trained as an artist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, her poetry is intensely visual, demonstrating the same life, color, and movement found in her pastels. A member of the Zuni Mountain Poets, her poetry has influenced a number of New Mexico poets, and they have influenced her. Her lines have a beautiful simplicity concentrated on the magical landscape of New Mexico, evoking the high desert, piñon trees, mountains, and the Native, Latino, and Anglo residents of the area. She was raised on a dairy farm not far from Wausau, Wisconsin.

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      White Ermine Across Her Shoulders - Ethel Mortenson Davis

      Copyright © 2011 by Ethel Mortenson Davis.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4620-5821-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-5822-8 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 10/22/2011

      Author of I Sleep Between the Moons of New Mexico

      Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Acknowledgements

      Snowstorm

      The Asking

      Against All Odds

      Aureate Song

      Messenger

      The Design Teacher

      The Bell

      West Window

      Communion Table

      In The Night

      Celestial Bird: The Poem

      An Eve of Wind and Shakespeare

      Black Hole

      An Evening

      Butterfly

      Mystery

      Flying

      Gardener

      Once There Was Just Sky and Silence

      Oriole

      Rain Dance

      Son

      Poetry

      Peace Figure

      First Laugh

      Sickness

      Dimensions

      Coyote

      Circles

      Disappearance

      Language of the Women

      Living in a Moment

      Reflections of a

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