The lightning field / Carol Moldaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moldaw, Carol.

Series:

Field poetry series ; v. 14.

Field poetry series ; [v. 14]

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

69 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oberlin, OH : Oberlin College Press, [2003]

Summary:

In her third collection, Carol Moldaw explores new territory in poems that are thematically far-ranging and technically superb. The book includes three long sequences based on art and artifact in various stages of completeness: preliminary pen-and-ink studies, Turkish ruins, and, at the center, the site-specific art installation that gives the book its title and impetus. Attracting charged material as a lightning field attracts lightning, the poems reference narrative but move beneath and beyond it through a restless and rewarding insistence on making and remaking, on seeing by degrees and seeing whole.

Contents:

Studies in Pen and Ink 3

Festina Lente 13

Appraisal 15

Lou Reed in Istanbul 16

Insomnia 19

Pelagos 21

Conduit 24

The Lightning Field 27

Timetable for Birds 45

Geese 47

Wind above the Weather 48

Report 49

Birthstone 50

Bear Claws 53

Anastylosis 57.

Notes:

"Winner of the 2002 FIELD poetry prize."--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN:

0932440940

OCLC:

52452331