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What others say about Poems for the Lost Deer<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\nPoems for the Lost Deer<\/em> is much more than poems. It is a tract that is, at once, lamentation and praise song, dirge and testament and manifestation. And an inquiry into values and hierarchy and a series of addresses to the faces of power. At stake is the extermination of the white deer of Marin County\u2014\u201cculling\u201d is the word, the \u201cManagement Plan.\u201d We need be mindful of St. George: \u201cSuch phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.\u201d But it\u2019s also the gap, it\u2019s that Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cWhere I could meditate in peace, and cull\/ Knowledge that step by step might lead me on\/ To wisdom\u2026.\u201d gives way to\u2014as Lysne reports in these pages\u2014\u201cCulling\/ Education\/ Garbage cans.\u201d Poems for the Lost Deer<\/em> invites readers to try to comprehend the scope and scale of the hillsides and of \u201cwhat humans do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014C. S. Giscombe, author of Into & Out of Dislocation<\/em>, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Echoing Blake\u2019s Songs of Innocence and Experience, Robin Lysne\u2019s Poems for the Lost Deer documents the recent systematic slaughter of \u201cnon-native\u201d Axis and Fallow deer from the Point Reyes National Seashore. Presenting \u201cwhat happened\u201d in an assemblage of overlapping voices — factual \u201cevidence\u201d. \u201cIn 2007 through January 31, 2008, NPS killed all \/ 250 Axis deer 900 Fallow deer \/ Before the killing, 1 per 30 acres \/ after killing, 1 per 110 acres \/ All 250 Axis deer (brown, black, yellow, white) \/ Gone in just one killing spree.\u201d; the National Park Service \u201cPick a date, draw a line. \/\/ Whatever team of experts deem\u00f1 \/ this is the way it is\u00ee); those who did the shooting \u201cWe are more dominant, that is a fact.\u201d; those who protested it (\u201cWho are not labeled an invasive species?\u201d); those who took care of the remains (\u201cDeer carcasses are to be sent to \/ homeless shelters in large white boxes\u201d\/\/ \u201cPacking Slip Contents: \/ 20 dead assorted deer \u00f1 minus racks\u201d); and throughout it all the deer themselves — first innocent (\u201cAcross this \/ field an apple tree \/ full of blossoms \/ run to it, sniff \/ stretching our necks \/ rub antlers on bark \/ scratch ears with hooves, \/ nuzzle young \/ we live \/ one more spring\u201d) then experienced (\u201cHumans came \/ to stop the \/ hunters \/\/ They gave us \/ three more suns \/ before the massacre\u201d) and now forever gone (\u201cthank you \/ for loving us \/ so well \/\/ We \/ forgive \/\/ Just know \/ love \/ is all \/ that \/ remains\u201d. This is a glimpse of the book Robin Lysne has given us, one whose time has come not a moment too soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014Stephen Ratcliffe, author of Real<\/em>, Portraits and Repitition, <\/em>and over 20 books of poetry and criticism, and is a long time Professor at Mills College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This manuscript is passionate, compassionate, skillful, meticulous, graceful, vital, and heartbreaking. It\u2019s most powerful moments lie in the poems that allow readers to come to their own conclusion and make their own connections, without being told exactly what to think. A shining moment lies in \u201cQuestion #1 for the Shooter,\u201d which demonstrates a disturbing mentality \u201cthe nonchalant attitude of a niche I fell into\u201d and the strange idea that \u201cYou can\u2019t think about the\/individual animal.\u201d This type of heartlessness as revealed in the language of the manuscript\u2019s antagonists also seen in poems like \u201cThe Politics of Shooting Deer\u201d and \u201cQuestion #3 for a Park Ranger\u201d is juxtaposed beautifully, albeit sorrowfully, with the poet\u2019s own outpourings of lyrical emotion and compassion for the deer, as in gems like \u201cDown there comes a fallow Doe\u201d and \u201cThey herd together.\u201d The use of repetition, refrain, found language through extensive research, and a variety of poem types all weave together elegantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014Heather Nagami, Editor of <\/em>Overhere Press, Professor Northeastern University, Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This engaged and engaging sequence of poems by Robin Lysne sees permeable borders where others see boundaries.; it is a kind of wordsmithery that is at once committed to changing our given worlds and to imagining spiritual worlds we have not yet reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though the subject is ostensibly the historical destruction of the white deer at Pt. Reyes peninsula between 2007-8, the reach is broader. When a voice speaks from one of the poems to say: \u201cWe sing\/our ghost\/dance for\/the fallen,\u201d deer and native and poet sing together of the past to question our future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through drawings, prose fragments, and lyrics, the poet deals in weighty matters, but with a deft touch that always allows the mysteries of nature to seep in and color everything. Let us listen hard to her singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014David Allen Sullivan, Professor Cabrillo College, Author of Strong-Armed Angels, Every Seed of the Pomegranate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to my poetry page. Enjoy the poems, and if you would like more, order a book! My two publications are shown below. I also have been included in magazines, and anthologies which you will see below the books. I also have some performances of my work, which are linked, so you can hear me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinlysne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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