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A soul carried into a vast infernal landscape opens Charles Hamilton Musgrove's collection, where a gathering of suffering spirits waits for a sign of hope. That dramatic vision gives way to other voices and scales: three elderly grave diggers sing about exhausted workers, while quieter poems watch clouds, crows, cicadas and a lizard at midsummer noon. The movement between public suffering and close attention to nature gives these verses their range.
Musgrove uses narrative scenes, songs and tightly shaped lyrics to consider mortality, mercy, longing and human dignity. A snow figure becomes the occasion for thoughts about consciousness; a woman passing through a crowd draws attention to loneliness and the failure of sympathy.
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- Reading time
- About 50 minutes
- Pages
- 88
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Poetry
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