Coming Soon: In a Field of Hallowed Be, by Timothy Geiger
Congratulations to Tim whose poem "Retreat" was featured on Verse Daily on November 16, 2024.
Praise for In a Field of Hallowed Be
The great naturalist Aldo Leopold once wrote: “. . . there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all,” which is precisely the music Timothy Geiger both hears and gives us in a voice that “whispers like sleet / every insomniac night.” This is a kind of Wordsworthian world where the poet is always looking back in order to look ahead, who listens to the songs of the many birds that populate the poems, not simply for their heard song, but for their unheard messages. Ranging from early childhood memories of family and friends, school and church, sometimes elegiac, sometimes celebratory, these poems quickly expand to an Emersonian expanse. Like "the starlings— / their incomprehensible psalms of the body / transfigure into the body they become.” There is no greater gift a poet can bring us and like the poet here, “I’m stalled before something wonderful glowing.”
—Richard Jackson, The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems
Praise for In a Field of Hallowed Be
The great naturalist Aldo Leopold once wrote: “. . . there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all,” which is precisely the music Timothy Geiger both hears and gives us in a voice that “whispers like sleet / every insomniac night.” This is a kind of Wordsworthian world where the poet is always looking back in order to look ahead, who listens to the songs of the many birds that populate the poems, not simply for their heard song, but for their unheard messages. Ranging from early childhood memories of family and friends, school and church, sometimes elegiac, sometimes celebratory, these poems quickly expand to an Emersonian expanse. Like "the starlings— / their incomprehensible psalms of the body / transfigure into the body they become.” There is no greater gift a poet can bring us and like the poet here, “I’m stalled before something wonderful glowing.”
—Richard Jackson, The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems
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Timothy Geiger is the author of the poetry collections Weatherbox, winner of the 2019 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books; The Curse of Pheromones from Main Street Rag Press; and Blue Light Factory from Spoon River Poetry Press. He is also the author of ten chapbooks, most recently Holler (APoGee Press, 2021). His poems have been published in such journals as Poetry, Plants & Poetry, and Split Rock Review. His work has received a Pushcart Prize XVII and a Holt, Rinehart and Winston Award in Literature, as well as many state and local grants from Ohio, Minnesota, and Alabama. He runs a small farm in Northwest Ohio raising goats, chickens, ducks, and pigs. The proprietor of Aureole Press, a letterpress imprint publishing contemporary poetry, he teaches Creative Writing and Book Arts at The University of Toledo.
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