Meteoric Flowers - Couverture souple

Willis, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081956849X ISBN 13 : 9780819568496

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2007

Synopsis

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.

Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world--mutability, desire, and the flowering of things--they are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos interrupted by lyrics and errata, Meteoric Flowers mirrors the form of Erasmus Darwin's 18th-century scientific pastorals. In attending to poetry's investigative potential, Willis shifts our attention from product to process, from commodity to exchange, from inherited convention to improvisational use.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ELIZABETH WILLIS is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of three previous volumes of poetry, including The Human Abstract (1995), a National Poetry Series selection, and lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081956849X
• ISBN 13: 9780819568496
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 94
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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