{"id":41953,"date":"2025-10-04T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=41953"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T15:53:04","slug":"a-bountiful-silence-other-poems-by-john-muro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=41953","title":{"rendered":"A Bountiful Silence: & Other Poems by John Muro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quiet, lyrical, and deeply reverent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muro offers a luminous meditation on silence, memory, and the natural world in his latest book. Organized in three movements; The Seasons, The Sea and Sky, and The Heart and Hands, the poems move with painterly attention through the natural world. Muro begins with the language of the seasons, where the tender return of spring, the richness of summer, the elegiac light of autumn, and the stillness of winter become measures of time\u2019s passage. In \u201cGoldfinch\u201d and \u201cRenascence,\u201d mortality is framed through images of birds and forest floors, while \u201cSomething More Than Winter (Weighs Upon Me)\u201d embodies sorrow made heavier by winter\u2019s quiet pall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the middle section, the sea and sky extend the collection\u2019s reach. The title poem, \u201cA Bountiful Silence,\u201d captures the stillness between tides, where \u201cone must work harder to hear\/ the breath of an elusive earth exhaling.\u201d By contrast, \u201cHow Darkness Fell\u201d draws on the smoke-choked days of 2023, when the sun itself seemed damaged: \u201ca ruined sun drifted in and out of a sky\/ choked with ruffled cloud like some unalloyed coin.\u201d In its final section, the collection narrows to themes of inheritance, memory, and art. Muro’s language is lush yet disciplined. Skies take shape as mosaics, rivers as radiant canvases, silence as boundless as tide or snow. Each phrase carries a musical cadence, recalling the composers and painters who appear in the work. What arises is not flourish but quiet conviction: that grief and beauty cannot be untangled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers attuned to poetry rooted in nature and art will find much to admire here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelsay Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date September 15, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1639809844<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $23.00 (USD) Paperback, $9.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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