Seasonal works with letters on fire [electronic resource] / Brenda Hillman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillman, Brenda.

Series:

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Wesleyan poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fire--Poetry.

Fire.

Lyric poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 p.)

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The final volume in the poet's extraordinary tetralogy on earth, air, water, and fire

Contents:

Cover; SEASONAL WORKS WITH LETTERS ON FIRE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; I .ON THE MIRACLE OF NAMELESS FEELING; To Spirits of Fire After Harvest; Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood; The Fuel of an Infinite Life; Grammar of This Life at Noon; Geminid Showers & Health Care Reform; Late Autumn Storms at Pigeon Point; At the Solstice, a Yellow Fragment; Early Sixties Christmas in the West; The Vowels Pass By in English; Something Has Been Reading the Fireroots; The Body Politic Loses Her Hair; In High Desert Under the Drones; Between Semesters, the Fragments Follow Us

We Saw the E Look BackI Heard Flame-Folder Spring Bring Red; En Route to Bolinas, a Rose; In the Room of Glass Breasts; Equinox Ritual with Ravens & Pines; To Leon, Born Before a Marathon; Fable of Work in the World; A Halting Probability, on a Train; In Summer, Everything Is Something's Twin; To Stem the Time We Spent; Facelessbook; Two Summer Aubades, After John Clare; The Practice of Talking to Plants; Ecopoetics Minifesto: A Draft for Angie; Foggy Animist Morning in the Vineyard; Previous Dawn in the Next Field; West Marin Night During Perseid Showers; For One Whose Love Has Gone

Patience Swoons in the Sword FernsBetween the Fire & the Flood; Between the Souls & the Meteors; Moaning Action at the Gas Pump; Elegy for an Activist in Winter; Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways; Rituals with Food Before the Feast; After the Feast at Year's End; Report on Visiting the District Office; After a Death in Early Spring; Imperishable Longing to Be with Others; The Hour Until We See You; Till It Finishes What It Does; After a Very Long Difficult Day; A Spiral Tries to Feel Again; You Were in Sunlight Being Prepared; On the Miracle of Nameless Feeling

II. A SENSE OF THE LIVELY UNITAs the Roots Prepare for Literature; Summer Mountain Lightning & Some Music; The Elements Are Mixed in Childhood; At the Snow Line in Summer; Sky of Omens, Floor of Fragments; The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto; Coda: Suggested Activism for Endangered Seeds; The Nets Between Solstice & Equinox; Very Far Back in This Life; To the Writing Students at Orientation; The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice; Local Warming & Early Autumn Butterflies; Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another; Imitating a Squirrel at my Job; Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors

A Short Walk During Late CapitalismA Quiet Afternoon at the Office; A Quiet Afternoon at the Office II; When the Occupations Have Just Begun; After the Orionids, Near the Plaza; From the Dictionary of Indo-European Roots; Short Anthem for the General Strike; Mists From People As They Pass; Types of Fire at the Strike; o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o; A Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility; & the Tents Went Back Up; 2 Journal Entries During Occupy SF; An Almanac of Coastal Winter Creatures; The Second Half of the Survey; Lyrid Meteor Showers During Your Dissertation

Poem of Hope, Almost at Equinox

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 6, 2013).

ISBN:

0-8195-7415-5

OCLC:

868948574