In a Few Minutes Before Later / Brenda Hillman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillman, Brenda, author.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry classics.

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2022]

Summary:

""[Hillman's] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful." -Harvard ReviewAn iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses narrative, documentary or scientific materials to record daily events during a time of pandemic, planetary crisis, political and racial turmoil. Hillman proposes that poetry offers courage even in times of existential peril; her work represents what is most necessary and fresh in American poetry. During an enchantment in the life Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now.In a half-unwieldy life you made, underthe hyaline sky, while the dead drank from zigzag pools nearby,if they saved you in your wild incapacities, in timing of the world's harmin a little pettiness in your own heart while others took your madrigals in shreds to a tribunal, when others said you should feel grateful to be minimally adequate for the world'striple exposure or some tired committee... The ones who love us, how do theybreak through our defenses? We're tired today. Come back later.Their baffled voices melting our wax wallswith a candle, the ones who understandwhat being is-the glowing, the broken, the wheels, the brave ones- they have their courage,you have yours,,,; when you meet the one you love,it is so rare. When you meetthe one who loves you, it is extremely rare"-- Provided by publisher.

"Poems meditating on differences between human time and ecological time, bringing to the foreground experiences of love and aging"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

I. In Landscapes of Stress &amp

Beauty

Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work

A Slightly Less Stressful Walk Uphill

Dawn Tercets, with Blake &amp

Nuthatch

Right Before Dusk, Some Meadow Fragments

A Goodness That Comes from Nothing

The Highest Part of the Dust

Poem Before the Power Went Out

Poem While the Power Was Out

&amp

After the Power Came Back

[interruption stichomythia]

People's Emotions in One City Block

After a Pageant, Before a Birth

Poem Describing Time to the Unborn

II. Activism &amp

Poetry-Some Brief Reports

The Times We Find Ourselves In

Activism &amp

Poetry-A Brief Report : :: :: :

In the Gardens of José Martí

Notes Outside West County Detention Center

Among Some Anapests at Civic Center

Wiping Tear Gas off Young People

Report on Another Encounter in Nature

6 Views of Moss Dendroalsia Abietinum

The American Burying Beetle

On the Molecules of Certain Ancestors

The Mostly Everything That Everyone Is

1967

III. There Are Many Women to Cherish

Winter Daybreak Stanzas for Our Daughters

The Closing of a Midtown Bookstore

A Pattern of Minutes During Illness

For Our Students Reading the Odyssey

The Working Sister of the Muses

Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial

In Some Senses of the Word

Taking the Sunflower to the Mountains

After the Fires,,, In the Mountains,,,

S/kin

History of Punctuation on the Face

[collage essay]

IV. For Writers Who Are Having Trouble

A Feeling Right Before the Feeling

On Days When We Both Travel

Concerning the Meaning Molecule in Poetry

The Child, Finishing Fourth Grade Online,.

The Scattering of the Lyric I

The Photograph of the Black Hole

Her Map Might Change Its Arrows

Dear emerging, pre-emerging &amp

post-emerging poets,

For One Who Paused Her Writing

To the Poets of Myanmar

::[an artist's sound, between the Farallones]::

Winter Song for One Who Suffers

V. The Sickness &amp

the World Soul

:::[a ragged white moth passes by]:::

[at a hospital: in the east]

[little breath circles all across town]

[: : : at equinox, same 12 squares, window : : :]

[stayed busy inside moments of not]

:::[the invisible is full for you]:::

[in the split gardens irrational hope]

[poem on a birthday::: in shelter]

[trance poem with the gray stone]

[asyndeton of adenine cytosine guanine uracil]

:::[when spring dusk fills the garden]:::

:::[lines on Easter during the sickness]:::

[for the workers suddenly less employed]

::[untitled]::

:::[to the voice of the age]:::

::[in a place with no light]::

[ ________________ ]

:::[smooth black stone has seen everything]:::

[chiasmus with all the other animals]

:::[the voice of the age chorus]:::

[pinched nerve in my white arm]

[the hive interrogates the helpless hum]

[the fourth part of a triptych]

[untitled tableau]

VI. In a Few Minutes Before Later

Escape &amp

Energy

The ground of being is changed

Logic

Punctuation at the end of time

Song

Love &amp

Myth

The Themes in American Literature

During an enchantment in the life

Speculation

Doubt &amp

Love

Exeunt

Epithalamium for Anxiety &amp

On Hearing the Golden-crowned Sparrow

Acknowledgments

Notes

Back Cover.

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Print version: Hillman, Brenda In a Few Minutes Before Later

ISBN:

9780819500229

OCLC:

1331412630