The lesser fields / Rob Schlegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlegel, Rob, author.

Series:

Colorado prize for poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : Center for Literary Publishing, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Rob Schlegel has a mind of winter. Like the painter Morandi, Schlegel makes a world of absence and deprivation-our world, the world of human mortality-feel like plenitude. Imagine wanting to discover the place where you yourself 'have not yet happened.' Now imagine creating this place in a language of hard-won precision-a diction and syntax so elegantly austere that the smallest gesture becomes an explosion of possibility. The result is a book that feels rivetingly contemporary while resembling nothing else, a book that seems shockingly intimate while giving nothing away. The Lesser Fields i

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; THE LESSER FIELDS; Economy of Winter; Ontogeny; With Shut Eyes What My Mind Sees Does Not Belong to Me; Icicles Tine Barnward from the Barn's Shallow Eave; I Pack Her Suitcase with Sticks, Light the Tinder, and Shut the Lid; Illuminated Face; Near the Creek Emptied of Water; Dusk by Flame; Allies; Lovemaking in America; Secrets Objects Share; Economy of Winter 2; People Live Here; The Lesser Fields; NOVEMBER DEATHS; The Snow Uncut Is a Field of Orphans; She Drops Each Suture from Her Stomach; into the Vase on Her Bedside Table; A Boy Is Kicking the Stomach of a Dog

From a Sheet of Yellow Paper I Cut Bolts of LightningIf Not a Passage Already Dangerous Then None This Hour Feral with Salt and Rockfish Swiveling Wakes at the Water's Surface as the Strait Swells in the Storm; The Lark's Call Is Smaller than the Field; LIVES; Lives of Daughter; Lives of Greta; Lives of Tree; Lives of Name; Lives of Furrow; Lives of Son; Lives of Empire; Lives of West; Lives of Odin; Lives of Lake; Lives of Horse; Lives of Animal; Lives of Method; Lives of Morandi; Lives of Rot; Lives of Modrow; Lives of Nathan; Lives of Cloth; Lives of Forest; Lives of Raft; Lives of Estuary

NotesAcknowledgements

Notes:

"The Colorado prize for poetry"--Prelim p.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781885635136

1885635133

9781457110825

1457110822

OCLC:

775301698