Case 5.6

DiNunzio, Michael G and Anne E Lacy. Adirondack Wildguide: A Natural History of the Adirondack Park. Utica, NY: Brodock Press, 1984. SPEC QH 105 .N7 D56 1984 c. 2.

Gibson, Chuck. Ten Ponds :Adirondack Mountain Poetry. Greenwich, N.Y.: Panther Mountain Press, 1995. SPEC PS3557.I1913 T46 1995.

Coyne-DeGhett, Stephanie. "Bear Ends Her First Solitary Summer." Blueline 34 (2013): 80. SPEC F127.A2 B58.

“Bear Ends her first Solitary Summer” from the most recent installment of Blueline was included in a section titled “Adirondack Ikons” edited by Adirondack poet Maurice Kenny (highlighted in a main lobby case). This poem stood out in particular because there are not too many other poems that are able to focus entirely on an animal and still comment on the human experience. The speaker does not need to relate the bear back to herself because her close attention to detail says it all: the speaker does not belong in this moment, it is “Landscape with bear”.

I included a map of the Adirondacks in this case in order to pinpoint our location and show the “blue line”.

This page from Chuck Gibson’s Ten Ponds serves to sum up a lot of what the poems on display have already been trying to say: “nature does not love you”.