Field light : summer end : the Dormouse, Glendale, Massachusetts, 1991-2018 : poems and prose / by Owen Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Owen, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 129 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Loveland, Ohio : Dos Madres Press Inc, 2020.

Summary:

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Winner of a Distinguished Favorite Award in the 2020 New York City Big Book Awards. FIELD LIGHT, written as an extended, multi-sectioned poem that moves in and out of prose, is a personal and historical exploration of the Berkshires through poetry and prose. Physician-poet Owen Lewis becomes a figure in his own epic as he learns to see himself and the abounding history that lives in the towns of western Massachusetts. From the writers Hawthorne, Melville, nearby Stanley Kunitz, Chris Gilbert and others, to artists Daniel Chester French, his daughter Peggy Cresson and Norman Rockwell, from the young lawyer Theodor Sedgwick who undertook a trial in 1781 to free Elizabeth Mumbet ending slavery in Massachusetts, to civil rights champion W.E.B. Du Bois, to Arlo Guthrie, to physician Austen Riggs and his psychiatric hospital, to Gertrude Smith and the founding of Tanglewood, FIELD LIGHT investigates layered histories to create a compelling cultural, political and social narrative, with its cycles of privilege and racism, that continues to unfold. It is the story of finding one's voice amid many voices, and the importance of the community of voices.

Contents:

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-A Freight Train Crossing

In The Bells

In My N.Y. Office

-Phone's

From A Corner Of The Porch A Cricket Solos

Dog Days Of August

In Rain, I First Saw The House

West Side Highway, River Of Cars

There Was Emptiness And They

This New York Jew Sits Just Outside

Not Far To The East

Peggy Cresson Showed An Anxious Look

I Seem To Have Taken A Wrong Turn

On The Platform, How Long

More History Dumped

Waiting To Meet My Roommate

Needing Company, Needing

Out Of The Roadside Brush A Young Woman

Nurse, Nurse, I Need Some Assistance

Every Country Signs The Global

They Come And Go, Choosing

Unplugging Boston's Orchestra

Un-Wanted This Yearning

She Wakes Me Up (From My

Another Voice

One Of My Patients Jumps

Where Does He Belong?

Howl, All Night Howling

I Watch The Care-

Order Of Separation

Enough Words And Their Legalities

The Obvious (Not So Obvious

I Always Say: Cover The Weeping Bruise

A View Of A Field Like Mine, Once Crop

I Jumped Into The Sparkling Field

Rockwell Tired Of The Almost-Happy Family

A Fact Of History Hallows The Ground

Facing His Own Death, A Colleague

Adam Does Not Much Like Sunday

Less Than Two Miles From

Call Me Whitman

Riggs: We Have Only A Few Mor Minutes Today

Asylum Words

Can Listen. Without Echo

Trees Planted In The First Year

No Footprints, But In The Air

-Sprung

Even The Common

Turning Into Dwelling

The Right To Know Protests The War In Vietnam

On The Mall In Front Of The Monument

We Must Not Be Enemies

Not In The Hands Of Boys, But In Their Eyes

The Long Boat That Arrives Before Living Begins

The Rise Behind The Sparkle-Bush

The Blinking Stops.

Notes:

Includes an appendix of historical notes pages (107-122).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

1948017717

9781948017718

OCLC:

1182853387

Publisher Number:

99986129374