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Books by Sydney Lea
  | | Here(1st Edition) by Sydney Lea Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 2019 by Four Way Books ISBN-13: 978-1-945588-40-2, ISBN: 1-945588-40-3 "In his thirteenth book of poetry, Sydney Lea gives voice to the deep connection between human life and the natural world as well as their fragility and transience. Here, nature is as much a muse as a trigger for sense memory—as a schoolboy on a playground “breathing in autumn mud, / that cherished aroma” or as witness to a redtail hawk’s attack and the aftermath during which “That poor doomed duckling’s wisps of down / Floated in air li ..." |
 | | What's the Story? Reflections On A Life Grown Long by Sydney Lea Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Green Writers Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9909733-9-3, ISBN: 0-9909733-9-5 "What's the Story? Reflections on a Life Grown Long is, in many ways, a kaleidoscopic chronicle of this ongoing search. By turns elegiac, humorous, sad, joyful, angry -and often many of these at once- this book of extremely short prose reflections entertains an abiding question for Lea: to what extent does "my" version of what happens in this life and in the world at large coincide with some imagined "real" version? If the author had an ..." |
 | | Growing Old in Poetry by Sydney Lea, Fleda Brown Paperback, 170 Pages, Published 2018 by Green Writers Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9994995-5-9, ISBN: 0-9994995-5-6 " Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in ..." |
 | | I Was Thinking of Beauty by Sydney Lea Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2013 by Four Way Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-31-4, ISBN: 1-935536-31-1 "It's been said about Lea that "this extraordinary poet finds an elegance and beauty that can be glimpsed throughout his often harsh landscape." This new collection evidences that skill. Here the natural world coexists with the poet's boundless intellect. Lea's keen narrative eye keeps us fully in the present as he reminisces on the past--which Lea unravels, chisels away at in search of a deeper understanding--so vivid it could be our ow ..." |
 | | A North Country Life(1st Edition) Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife by Sydney Lea, Nick Lyons Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Skyhorse ISBN-13: 978-1-61608-863-7, ISBN: 1-61608-863-X "The author looks back at a lifetime’s worth of hunting, fishing, and camaraderie in the Northeast Kingdom.A North Country Life is the story of author Sydney Lea’s powerful connection to his family, friends, and the northern outdoors. Loosely organized by the changing of seasons, different sections feature essays on such topics as childhood family fishing trips in the wilds of Maine, trophy fly-fishing the northern reaches of the Connect ..." |
 | | Pursuit of a Wound(1st Edition) POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series) by Sydney Lea Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06817-1, ISBN: 0-252-06817-3 ""Co-winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for his collection "To the Bone", Sydney Lea is known for his mastery of the narrative style and his clear and unwavering vision of the natural world and humanity's place in it. His latest work, "Pursuit of a Wound", is marked by this acuity and by his uncanny ear for language as well as his willingness to speak for the unlucky and the dispossessed. Delving in equal measure into the flinty nort ..." |
 | | No Doubt the Nameless by Sydney Lea Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2016 by Four Way Books ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-73-4, ISBN: 1-935536-73-7 "No Doubt the Nameless delves the depths of elegy, yet moves at last into a positive reading of the human situation. Here are familiar rural characters, whose sturdiness and joy figure as strongly into Lea’s narratives, both overt and implied, as do their trials and misfortunes. " |
 | | A Hundred Himalayas Essays on Life and Literature (Writers on Writing) by Sydney Lea Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05188-5, ISBN: 0-472-05188-1 "In A Hundred Himalayas, Sydney Lea has collected a group of essays written over 30 years, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory---a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments. His musings on his own "favored genius," Robert Frost, his own approach to literary criticism, imagination, the American nature essay, rural lif ..." |
 | | Ghost Pain Poems by Sydney Lea Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2005 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-14-7, ISBN: 1-932511-14-8 "“Singer of stories, lyric raconteur, Sydney Lea has evolved—through a long, rich career—into one of America’s most harrowing and honest poets. Ghost Pain is his most eloquent and wrenching book.”—T.R. Hummer“Ghost Pain is a remarkable book, which takes his work to a new level.”—Stephen DunnThe eighth poetry collection by the founder of New England Review explores addiction, alcoholism, violence and the uses and inadequacies of art." |
 | | To the Bone New and Selected Poems (Illinois Poetry): New and Selected Poems (Illinois Poetry) by Sydney Lea Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06519-4, ISBN: 0-252-06519-0 "... the Blind"; North by Northeast: "Road Agent"; Tar River Poetry: "Black Bear Cuffing for Food" Certain poems included here also appear in anthologies, to whose editors the author likewise expresses gratitude: New York: Poems, ed. Howard Moss (New York: Avon, 1980): "Accident"; Writing in a Nuclear Age, ed. Jim Schley (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1983): "After Labor Day"; New American Poets of the 80s, ed. Jac ..." |
 | | The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry(1st Edition) by Robert Pack, Sydney Lea, Jay Parini, Professor Jay Parini Paperback, 367 Pages, Published 1985 by Middlebury ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-350-9, ISBN: 0-87451-350-2 "Gathers poems by seventy-two modern writers, including John Ashbery, Erica Jong, Marilyn Hacker, John Ciardi, Dave Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Maxine Kumin, and Richard Wilbur." |
 | | The Music of What Happens Lyric and Everyday Life by Sydney Lea 180 Pages, Published 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-73208-150-5, ISBN: 1-73208-150-6 "This book is a compendium of newspaper columns Sydney Lea composed in his tenure as Vermont Poet Laureate." |
 | | Ghost Pain Poems (Hardcover) by Sydney Lea Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-13-0, ISBN: 1-932511-13-X |
 | | The Blainville Testament by Sydney Lea Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1992 by Story Line Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-934257-80-0, ISBN: 0-934257-80-9 "PROEM: AFTER GEORGE'S AXE WAS STOLEN I came back to camp at nightfall, a scene that, wanting an object, had changed: How old my dooryard pine had grown, ..." |
 | | No Sign (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.) by Sydney Lea Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4160-6, ISBN: 0-8203-4160-6 |
 | | A Hundred Himalayas Essays on Life and Literature (Writers on Writing) by Sydney Lea Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-07188-3, ISBN: 0-472-07188-2 "In A Hundred Himalayas, Sydney Lea has collected a group of essays written over 30 years, representing what he refers to as the persistence of preoccupations and the absence of theory---a group of speculations, each one a single Himalaya, together a great elevation achieved in small increments. His musings on his own "favored genius," Robert Frost, his own approach to literary criticism, imagination, the American nature essay, rural lif ..." |
 | | Young of the Year(1st Edition) (Malcolm McDonald Series Selection) by Sydney Lea Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2011 by Four Way ISBN-13: 978-1-935536-10-9, ISBN: 1-935536-10-9 "The poems in Sydney Lea’s Young of the Year range widely as they stretch out over considered, affective sentences that call to mind the heady “wail and whisper and funk” of musicians like Clifford Brown and Clyde McPhatter, the New England musings of Robert Frost, and Robert Penn Warren’s narratives and anecdotes. Casting a candid and contemplative look back at a life lived and out at a world alive with motion, Young of the Year shows u ..." |
 | | A Place in Mind by Sydney Lea Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Story Line Press ISBN-13: 978-1-885266-39-2, ISBN: 1-885266-39-1 "Brant Healey purchases a house in Maine and befriends the caretaker, Louis, with whom he shares a love of fishing, hunting, and the Maine outdoors" |
 | | Hunting the Whole Way Home(Updated) by Sydney. Lea Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 1994 by Upne ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-737-8, ISBN: 0-87451-737-0 "A hunter and writer explores the meaning of his "belief in the rights of wild places." "These tales and essays about one man's explorations of the natural world . . . are as fresh as spring, and equally intoxicating."--Michael Pollan, author of Second Nature." |
 | | Fiction, Flyfishing & the Search for Innocence (Sporting Life) by E. Annie Proulx, Nick Lyons, Thomas Mcguane, Robert F. Jones, Sidney Lea, Sydney Lea, Mallory Burton, Tom Tolnay, David Seybold, Jerry Warrington, Dennis G. Bitton, Jim Enger, Thomas Mdguane Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 1994 by Birch Brook Press ISBN-13: 978-0-913559-20-8, ISBN: 0-913559-20-2 "This beautiful book is crafted with the kind of attentive patience and workmanship that appeals to the fishermen in us. The fine writing includes stories by Thomas McGuane and pulitzer prize-winner E. Annie Proulx. And the book itself is a work of art: letterpress edition, set by hand in metal type, printed on 80 lb. Cream White Mohawk Vellum, and bound sturdily one precious book at a time. Fewer than half of the numbered edition of 150 ..." |
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