Chosen by the Lion: Poems

Linda Gregg

Graywolf Press, 1994 - Poetry - 59 pages

Chosen by the Lion is Linda Gregg's fourth collection, and her most eloquent, bespeaking a deeply personal reconciliation with the loss of love. Gregg is able to take common experience, to see it clearly, in all its mundane and ordinary complexity. But in her poetry, that experience is also explored in its affinity to the gods, to the ways of nature. The result is an experience that is firmly grounded in the ordinary, yet transformed spiritually.

Contents

• The Delicate Thing31: 31
• The Hearts White Horse37: 37
• Is It Pain If There Is No One There to See It43: 43

About the author

Linda Gregg was born in Suffern, New York on September 9, 1942. She received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from San Francisco State University. She became a poet. She published several collections of poetry including Too Bright to See, Alma, Sacraments of Desire, Chosen by the Lion, Things and Flesh, and In the Middle Distance. All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. She also received the Whiting Writers' Award, the Sara Teasdale Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize, and numerous Pushcart Prizes. She died on March 19, 2019 at the age of 76.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Chosen by the Lion: Poems
• Author: Linda Gregg
• Publisher: Graywolf Press, 1994
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 6, 2008
• ISBN: 1555972071, 9781555972073
• Length: 59 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / General