{"product_id":"9781964295169","title":"Clearing the Stream: New \u0026 Selected Poems 1975-2025","description":"Clearing the Stream gathers fifty years of Dennis Maloney's poems into a single collection-a sustained record of one poet's attention to the world. He writes with equal care about a calligrapher's brush and the catastrophes of war, about snowfall and legacy, about remaining awake to beauty without turning away from harm. Rather than circling a single autobiographical self, these poems open into something more spacious: a way of being in the world that readers are invited to share.\n\n\"Clearing the Stream celebrates a half-century of Dennis Maloney's poetic journey with a collection that longs to hold the world gently: 'We are fragile vessels \/ anchoring sky to earth.' I so admire how these poems carry a deep compassion for stillness, for life, and for the natural world. His work offers the kind of clarity and grace we need in this present moment-meditations, moments like a shimmering streetlight asking: 'How is your world?' Maloney's poems are at once lyrical and political, intimate and expansive, responding to the question: 'What shall remain \/ as my legacy? And what is the answer? ' Presence, birdsong, snowfall, a calligrapher's brush, memory, beauty. What a radiant collection, what an offering of a life lived in poetry, what an absolutely stunning book of poems for us to hold.\"\n-Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Accidental Devotions\n\n\"With Clearing the Stream, Dennis Maloney gathers the currents of a half century of his deep and abiding relationship with the page. This gathering bears witness to a life lived mindfully and full of heart and history and profound awareness of the natural world. Truly, these poems are a testament and a delight. \"\n-Joe Wilkins, author of The Entire Sky and When We Were Birds\n\n\"Over the decades, Dennis Maloney's poems have always pointed to 'the urgency of life itself'; the new poems collected here include some of the most quietly devastating imaginings of war I've ever read. This book contains a half of a century of meticulous, clear-headed study of the self, not who it is, but what it is, yet the poems are never, ever about the self. They float free of a single identity, which is beautiful and rare.\"\n-Chase Twichell, author of Things As It Is","brand":"Walton Well Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55437464830295,"sku":"9781964295169","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/10075963482887.jpg?v=1792100594","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/9781964295169","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}