Extra hidden life, among the days / Brenda Hillman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillman, Brenda, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

171 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Contents:

I The Forests of Grief & Color

On a Day, In the World 3

Whose Woods These Are We Think 4

All-night Crooked Moonrise over Mountain Pines 5

The Bride Tree Can't Be Read 7

Brief Walk at Salt Point Park 8

For the Lovers Abandoned in Sunlight 9

During a Suite by Gaspar Cassadó 10

Beneath a Dying Coast Live Oak 11

[& heard a humming, like the] 12

The Forests of Grief & Color 13

The Before Sleep Kind of Everything 14

Composition: Fringe Lichen: Tilde & Mãe 15

Composition: Under Cypresses, Near Big Sur 16

Of Monarchs Again, Especially the Stripes 17

So, Bacteria Also Have Their Thunder 18

Angrily Standing Outside in the Wind 19

[Untitled Day] 20

Species Prepare to Exist after Money 21

Extra Hidden Life, among the Days 22

Mountain Pond Landscape, in a Drought 24

As a Sentence Leaves Its Breath 25

Some Kinds of Forever Visit You 26

The Bride Tree Lives Three Times 27

In the Forest of Blue Aptitude 28

II Near the Rim of the Ideal

A Short Rhyme for Amiri Baraka 31

A Summer Song from Old Berlin 32

Untitled & Translation to Portuguese 33

Curl of Hair in a Drawer 35

The Family Sells the Family Gun 37

Describing Tattoos to a Cop 40

Chicago Black Friday Protest Near Apple 42

Crypto-Animist Introvert Activism 43

Triple Moments of Light & Industry 45

To a Life Ended in Winter 46

Hearing La Bohème after the March 47

Near the Rim of the Ideal 50

III Metaphor & Simile 53

IV Two Elegies

The Rosewood Clauses 97

Her Presence Will Live beyond Progress 117

V Two Odes

A Poem for a National Forest 135

A Poem for a National Seashore 155.

ISBN:

9780819578051

0819578053

OCLC:

1007495014