Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

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A compact lyric sequence set amid tidal marshes and meadowland, the poems use recurring images of low tide, wind, flowers, birds, and seasonal light to explore memory, longing, and the passage of time. Brief, sensory pieces alternate personal yearning and elegiac loss with attentive natural description, tying human feeling to the rhythms of the landscape. The tone ranges from wistful nostalgia to quiet acceptance, repeatedly returning to motifs of spring renewal and vanished presences. Together the lyrics form a tightly keyed meditation that blends elegy and buoyant natural observation into a cohesive reflection on recollection and renewal.

LOW TIDE ON GRAND PRÉ:
A BOOK OF LYRICS:
BY
BLISS CARMAN

CHARLES L. WEBSTER AND COMPANY

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK MDCCCXCIII

By BLISS CARMAN.

PRESS OF

Jenkins & McCowan,

NEW YORK.

The poems in this volume have been collected with reference to their similarity of tone. They are variations on a single theme, more or less aptly suggested by the title, Low Tide on Grand Pré. It seemed better to bring together between the same covers only those pieces of work which happened to be in the same key, rather than to publish a larger book of more uncertain aim.

B. C.

By Grand Pré, September, 1893.