For a Hymn to the Edgeby Tim Myers |
out on the reaches when time banks up like wind-blown ice on lakeshore space eases itself into trailing wisps light grows into something else where thought curls and dwindles like a leaf in utter fire numbers unravel themselves, geometry melts physicality goes shape-shifting toward and away when all that we consider real infinity Copyright © 2005, Tim Myers |
| Tim Myers won a national poetry contest judged by John Updike, has published over 100 poems (Rattle, Northeast, Southern Humanities Review, national anthologies), and has a chapbook coming out from Pecan Grove Press. An essay he wrote was recently nominated for a Pushcart. Tim's children's book Basho and the Fox was read on NPR, made The New York Times bestseller list for children's books, and was honored by Smithsonian Magazine, The Children's Book Council, and Bank Street College. His Tanuki's Gift was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by Bank Street College and Nick Jr. Magazine. Basho and the River Stones received an excellent review in The New York Times and is a Junior Library Guild selection. His latest book is Good Babies, from Candlewick. He teaches at Santa Clara University in the Bay Area. |
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