Restoration Day

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"Restoration" is a word with political, theological, and therapeutic resonance. The long poem RESTORATION DAY mingles these and other meanings with memories of Rhode Island - the "Ocean State". The poem plays multiple changes on the coincidence that the British holiday, "Restoration Day", and R.I. Statehood Day, are one and the same : May 29th. As it happens, King Charles II -whose birthday the British holiday celebrates - granted the original R.I. colonial charter to Roger Williams and his friends.

Henry Gould's poems and prose have appeared in Poetry, Critical Flame, Coldfront, Ars Interpres, The Providence Journal, West Branch, Blackbox Manifold, Boston Review, Notre Dame Review, Jacket, Mudlark, Alea, and elsewhere. Four books of poetry have been published : Stone (Copper Beech, 1979), Stubborn Grew (Spuyten Duyvil, 2000), Ravenna Diagram (vols I-III) (Dos Madres, 2018-2020), and Continental Shelf : shorter poems 1968-2020 (Dos Madres, 2022). For several years he co-edited the little magazine, Nedge. He also co-edited (with the author) and published a selected poems of Edwin Honig (Time & Again : poems 1940-1997).