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 Accounted For
Red Hen Press, 2011
Savard's Accounted For is a collection of lyrical poems told by a multifaceted persona responsible for discovering the meaning of individual integrity, regardless of the apparent self’s impermanent nature. Many poems reveal encounters with other selves, mirrored selves, intimated, drawn, or fully detailed. Each persona reveals a concern for the illusion of time as it plays out in both the personal and social spheres. Prayer, dreams, invocations, and meditations suggest relationship with the Unseen, and when faith in a whole self’s seed is present, Savard finds openness to the mystery of life and death.
Praise for Accounted For:
It is odd how the old Kabbalists, when interpreting our dreams, focused on the search
for lost innocence. This is the very brilliant villain or motive in Jeannine Savard’s fourth collection of poems, Accounted For. These poems hurl imaginal pictures across
a musical membranous tablet of time past and time future. Rilke thought this was the genius of the Children’s Hour. Things to hear, things to see, and the original terror.
What an important and memorable book this is!
-Norman Dubie
I have always treasured the poised imagistic richness of Jeannine Savard's poetry. Her powerful narrative intelligence is equaled only by her superb lyric eloquence. Deeply spiritual and yet profoundly worldly, the poems in her new book Accounted For evolve as complex reckonings with the determined transience of our lives. In any accounting of the heart there could be no better abacus than this remarkable collection of poems.
-David St. John
What Jeannine Savard accounts for in her new book is a complex range of human experience and emotion, in poems marked by their urgency, their fierce music. Schooled in the harsh lessons of History, deeply read in Buddhism, and blessed with an unerring instinct for the revelatory detail, she discovers meaning everywhere, from the scuttling of a lizard in the sand to the musings of a clerk at The Quick Stop to the Book of Changes, and records it with love and fideliity. This is a book of wisdom literature for a dark and frantic time, a radiant field in which "Everything's here for us, and nothing is ours." What strange and instructive consolation Jeannine Savard offers in these poems--and what light.
-Christopher Merrill
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