Two Open Doors in a Field (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention)

Klahr, Sophie

ISBN 10: 1496232372 / ISBN 13: 9781496232373

Edité par The Backwaters Press, 2023

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Titre : Two Open Doors in a Field (The Backwaters ...

Éditeur : The Backwaters Press

Date d'édition : 2023

Reliure : paperback

Etat : Very Good

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Longlisted for 2023 Julie Suk Award

The poems of Two Open Doors in a Field are constructed through deliberate limitations, restlessly exploring place, desire, and spirituality. A profusion of sonnets rises from a single circumstance: Sophie Klahr's experience of driving thousands of miles alone while listening to the radio, where unexpected landscapes make listening to the unexpected more acute. Accompanied by the radio, Klahr's experience of land is transformed by listening, and conversely, the body of the radio is sometimes lost to the body of the land. The love story at the core of this work, Klahr's bond with Nebraska, becomes the engine of this travelogue. However far the poems range beyond Nebraska, they are tethered to an environment of work and creation, a place of dirt beneath the nails where one can see every star and feel, acutely, the complexity of connection.

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Sophie Klahr is a poet, teacher, and editor. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and elsewhere. Klahr is the author of Meet Me Here at Dawn.