Field music : poems / Alexandria Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Alexandria, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Place attachment--Poetry.

Place attachment.

Language and languages--Poetry.

Language and languages.

Manners and customs.

Vermont--Social life and customs--Poetry.

Vermont.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 77 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

"In her remarkable and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger, intimacy and isolation, playfulness and seriousness, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont, illuminating the beauty and difficulty inherent in the dichotomies of human language and experience. Incisive and tender, Field Music is a thoughtful and alert collection from a major emerging voice" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I

Travel Narrative p. 3

On Beauty p. 4

Field Music p. 5

Syrinx p. 7

My Love p. 8

Geosmin p. 10

Smoke p. 11

The First Time p. 12

The Body at Night p. 13

I Contain Myself Needfully p. 14

Something Important Put Clumsily Away p. 15

On Looking p. 16

Walking in Reverse p. 17

In the Nets p. 18

Filling Station p. 19

The Lake House p. 22

Touch Comes Through Me p. 24

Bloom p. 25

Chacala p. 26

Dirt Song p. 27

Sonnet with a Line from Wordsworth p. 28

Fishing p. 29

After Hearing of My Father's Illness p. 30

II

Having Been p. 35

On Art p. 36

Home p. 38

A Series of Losses p. 39

Desire p. 40

Slumber Party p. 42

Practice Test for Insatiable Loneliness p. 44

On Music p. 46

On Art p. 48

Dealing with the Absence p. 49

Contrition p. 50

Release p. 51

My Mother the Astronomer p. 52

Dredge p. 53

Hush p. 55

At Dusk p. 56

Proximity p. 57

On Taste p. 58

Appetite p. 60

Spring Cleaning p. 61

Return p. 63

Heirloom p. 64

Lilac Ode p. 66

The Drive p. 68

People Fall All the Time p. 70.

Notes:

National poetry series, winner

ISBN:

9780063008380

0063008386

OCLC:

1192358152