The hundred grasses : poems / Leila Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Leila.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweek Editions, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wilson writes from the periphery of an open field in this extended investigation into longing and loss, love and doubt. As the poet muses, ""we wonder / what we're not / in the field,"" and reading The Hundred Grasses, we are made to wonder as much about what exists within us as how we're shaped by what we lack. For Wilson, the act of looking can animate what is seemingly static. Stillness becomes not absence but fullness. These poems shape sounds culled from the empty spaces they inhabit, giving sense to life's silences.In the author's words:I am interested in

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; I; What Is the Field?; Nether; Air Parts; Hedge // Yellow Field; Branches; Beneath the Overpass; Ancestral; II; Character Architecture; Back Spot Turn; Bed Brightening; Lisp of Cloud; Farnsworth House; Anniversary; Ocean Inn; Sail Dilation; III; Pocket Compass; Tributaries; Pond Song; The Solent; Promontory; Lawn Archaeology; Wisconsin Rubbing; Driftless Region; Tracing Her Frolic; IV; Span; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781571318763

1571318763

OCLC:

830170131