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Take away the negative connotations of “artifice” as “clever or cunning devices [ . . .] especially used to trick or deceive” and return it more to its positive root meaning of “workmanship,” but still keeping in mind that magician’s intent to surprise and delight, and you have the mastery of Butterfield as he braids what he wants to say into the rope of his poems along with the fibers he finds from the natural world of which he is such a keen and loving observer. The artifice of Butterfield’s poetry never happens in an artificial way. Nature is always the moving force and each poem’s mastery belies the difficulty the poet must have encountered to give them their easy, “natural,” and conversationally musical semblance.
–Tim Mayo (author of Thesaurus of Separation, Finalist for the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award and the 2017 Montaigne Medal)
Morning Watch: poems
by Charles Butterfield
$13.99, paper
978-1-64662-057-9
2019
“Nature is everything, OK?” poet and critic Hayden Carruth wrote, “not merely stones and oceans, butterflies and flowers, but ideas, poems, dreams, spiritual intimations.” In these new poems, Charles Butterfield draws on his graduate background in biology and English literature to place himself in that web that holds everything together. He lives in southwest New Hampshire.
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