Swallow : poems / Miranda Field.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Miranda.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 53 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Summary:

From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world composed equally of shadow and substance, filled not just with beauty but also with a kind of savage experience. But Swallow is more than a crisscrossing of boundaries. It is an imperative, a dare: Go ahead, do as Eve did; let hunger take you wherever it will. According to James Longenbach, these poems are "too beautifully made to idealize freedom, too much in love with vicissitude to idealize beauty. Read these poems, enter them, and be hungry forever."

Contents:

Hortus Conclusus 3

Soloist 4

Then As September Fields of Wheat & Straw Take Fire 5

Subway 6

Crime Scenes 8

Field Hare 9

Thread of the Screw 10

Museum of Natural History 11

Tumultuous Stillness 12

Citronella 14

Miraculous Image 15

Housefire 19

We Lie Like Four Spoons in a Drawer 20

Pear Tree 21

As the Crow Flies, So Will It Fall 22

At the Edge of the Garden, a Tattooed Spider 23

Phrenological 24

Estate 25

Childhood's House 26

The Parties 27

Jack's Lake 28

Anaglypta 29

Cock Robin 30

At Ravenscroft 31

Bright Ardor 35

L'Atlante 36

The Betrothal 37

Birthmark 38

Passerine 39

Boy Pouring Water 41

Bestial 42

The Lost Head 44

Red Wing 46

The Lacemaker 49

Affliction Is a Marvel of Divine Technique 50

Wedding Night 53.

Notes:

"A Mariner original."

ISBN:

0618189300

OCLC:

50267282