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- Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
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- Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
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- Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0819575224
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- 9780819575227
- ISBN
- 9780819575227
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- Wesleyan University Press
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- Poetry
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- 09/09/2014
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- 2014
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- English
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- 9in
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- 2014
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- General
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- 8 Oz
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- 128 Pages
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The final volume in the poet's extraordinary tetralogy on earth, air, water, and fire Winner of the Griffin Poetry Trust's International Poetry Prize (2014) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014) Fire-- its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms--is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes--Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water--have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader's companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu.
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Wesleyan University Press
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0819575224
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9780819575227
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Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
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Trade Paperback
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English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Poetry
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128 Pages
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9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
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8 Oz
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"Brenda Hillman's latest poems blaze up like matches--they dance and flicker out by the bottom of the page ... Hillman's book reminds us that one of the functions of art is to disturb: to startle us out of the ossified, inflexible forms of the routine and conventional. In this, Hillman has a particularly American genius."--Dana Levin, Boston Review "[A]n activist poetics that holds at its heart the obligation to renew the language and the world."--Jerry Harp, Kenyon Review "Brenda Hillman possesses what many contemporary poets do not: both a political imagination and a poetic conscience. She does what Rosanna Warren says poets should do more often: she 'wrestles with the polis' ... Hillman's mystical imagination, her exacting intelligence, and her sensuous play with words on the page often leads to a Mallarmé-like magic. These poems are about vision; like the sinewy forms in Blake's cosmology, the elasticity of her poems require space, image, sound--well, it's a whole new universe. Bravely, Hillman will take you there."--Amy Pence, Colorado Review "In Seasonal Works, perhaps the friction between the ephemeral and the eternal are the two timbers that give way to spark." --Erin Lyndal Martin, Rain Taxi online reviews "Brenda Hillman is like her poems--surreptitiously wild, wordy and replete with surprising confessions."--Lou Fancher, Contra Costa Times "I love this book so I want to explore the grounds of my pleasures."--Charles Altieri, Open Humanities Press "Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire ... celebrates poetry as a mode of sheer delight in the kinds of being that are committed to finding pleasure and freedom and connection as elementary conditions of being in the world."--Charles Altieri, Open Humanities Press "Hillman's devotion to social justice--her unwavering belief in poetry's capacity to address root causes of our political strife--ultimately purifies our fallen world in the languages of elemental fire."--Karen An-Hwei Lee, The Iowa Review "Hillman has created a book both masterful and sprawling, straightforward at times and experimental at others ... [It] warrants close attention, for being urgent political poetry and so much more."--Janna Knittel, Pleiades "I can think of no better recent poetry than Brenda Hillman's in its reach and ambition and serious play that widens poetic horizons ... [H]er latest book--visionary, political, and ecological--encompasses a dizzying number of layers as it warms, shines, threatens, and burns."--Michael Morse, Tikkun, "Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire . . . celebrates poetry as a mode of sheer delight in the kinds of being that are committed to finding pleasure and freedom and connection as elementary conditions of being in the world."-Charles Altieri, openhumanities.org/feedback, "Brenda Hillman possesses what many contemporary poets do not: both a political imagination and a poetic conscience. She does what Rosanna Warren says poets should do more often: she 'wrestles with the polis.' …Hillman's mystical imagination, her exacting intelligence, and her sensuous play with words on the page often leads to a Mallarmé-like magic. These poems are about vision; like the sinewy forms in Blake's cosmology, the elasticity of her poems require space, image, sound-well, it's a whole new universe. Bravely, Hillman will take you there."-Amy Pence, Colorado Review, "Brenda Hillman possesses what many contemporary poets do not: both a political imagination and a poetic conscience. She does what Rosanna Warren says poets should do more often: she 'wrestles with the polis.' ...Hillman's mystical imagination, her exacting intelligence, and her sensuous play with words on the page often leads to a Mallarmé-like magic. These poems are about vision; like the sinewy forms in Blake's cosmology, the elasticity of her poems require space, image, sound-well, it's a whole new universe. Bravely, Hillman will take you there."-Amy Pence, Colorado Review, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire . . . celebrates poetry as a mode of sheer delight in the kinds of being that are committed to finding pleasure and freedom and connection as elementary conditions of being in the world., Brenda Hillman possesses what many contemporary poets do not: both a political imagination and a poetic conscience. She does what Rosanna Warren says poets should do more often: she 'wrestles with the polis.' ...Hillman's mystical imagination, her exacting intelligence, and her sensuous play with words on the page often leads to a Mallarmé-like magic. These poems are about vision; like the sinewy forms in Blake's cosmology, the elasticity of her poems require space, image, sound-well, it's a whole new universe. Bravely, Hillman will take you there., "Brenda Hillman's latest poems blaze up like matches-they dance and flicker out by the bottom of the page . . . Hillman's book reminds us that one of the functions of art is to disturb: to startle us out of the ossified, inflexible forms of the routine and conventional. In this, Hillman has a particularly American genius."-Dana Levin, Boston Review, Brenda Hillman possesses what many contemporary poets do not: both a political imagination and a poetic conscience. She does what Rosanna Warren says poets should do more often: she 'wrestles with the polis' ... Hillman's mystical imagination, her exacting intelligence, and her sensuous play with words on the page often leads to a Mallarmé-like magic. These poems are about vision; like the sinewy forms in Blake's cosmology, the elasticity of her poems require space, image, sound--well, it's a whole new universe. Bravely, Hillman will take you there., In Seasonal Works, perhaps the friction between the ephemeral and the eternal are the two timbers that give way to spark., "In Seasonal Works, perhaps the friction between the ephemeral and the eternal are the two timbers that give way to spark."-Erin Lyndal Martin, Rain Taxi online reviews, Brenda Hillman's latest poems blaze up like matches-they dance and flicker out by the bottom of the page . . . Hillman's book reminds us that one of the functions of art is to disturb: to startle us out of the ossified, inflexible forms of the routine and conventional. In this, Hillman has a particularly American genius., "Brenda Hillman's latest poems blaze up like matches--they dance and flicker out by the bottom of the page ... Hillman's book reminds us that one of the functions of art is to disturb: to startle us out of the ossified, inflexible forms of the routine and conventional. In this, Hillman has a particularly American genius."--Dana Levin, Boston Review "I can think of no better recent poetry than Brenda Hillman's in its reach and ambition and serious play that widens poetic horizons [H]er latest book--visionary, political, and ecological--encompasses a dizzying number of layers as it warms, shines, threatens, and burns."--Michael Morse, Tikkun "Hillman has created a book both masterful and sprawling, straightforward at times and experimental at others [It] warrants close attention, for being urgent political poetry and so much more."--Janna Knittel, Pleiades "Hillman's devotion to social justice--her unwavering belief in poetry's capacity to address root causes of our political strife--ultimately purifies our fallen world in the languages of elemental fire."--Karen An-Hwei Lee, The Iowa Review "Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire celebrates poetry as a mode of sheer delight in the kinds of being that are committed to finding pleasure and freedom and connection as elementary conditions of being in the world."--Charles Altieri, Open Humanities Press "I love this book so I want to explore the grounds of my pleasures."--Charles Altieri, Open Humanities Press "Brenda Hillman is like her poems--surreptitiously wild, wordy and replete with surprising confessions."--Lou Fancher, Contra Costa Times "In Seasonal Works, perhaps the friction between the ephemeral and the eternal are the two timbers that give way to spark."--Erin Lyndal Martin, Rain Taxi online reviews "Brenda Hillman possesses what many contemporary poets do not: both a political imagination and a poetic conscience. She does what Rosanna Warren says poets should do more often: she 'wrestles with the polis' Hillman's mystical imagination, her exacting intelligence, and her sensuous play with words on the page often leads to a Mallarmé-like magic. These poems are about vision; like the sinewy forms in Blake's cosmology, the elasticity of her poems require space, image, sound--well, it's a whole new universe. Bravely, Hillman will take you there."--Amy Pence, Colorado Review "Brenda Hillman's latest poems blaze up like matches--they dance and flicker out by the bottom of the page Hillman's book reminds us that one of the functions of art is to disturb: to startle us out of the ossified, inflexible forms of the routine and conventional. In this, Hillman has a particularly American genius."--Dana Levin, Boston Review "[A]n activist poetics that holds at its heart the obligation to renew the language and the world."--Jerry Harp, Kenyon Review
Table of Content
I. ON THE MIRACLE OF NAMELESS FEELING To Spirits of Fire After Harvest Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood The Fuel of an Infinite Life Grammar of This Life at Noon Geminid Showers & Health Care Reform Late Autumn Storms at Pigeon Point At the Solstice, a Yellow Fragment Early Sixties Christmas in the West The Vowels Pass By in English Something Has Been Reading the Fireroots *The Body Politic Loses Her Hair In High Desert Under the Drones Between Semesters, the Fragments Follow Us *We Saw the E Look Back I Heard Flame-Folder Spring Bring Red En Route to Bolinas, a Rose In the Room of Glass Breasts Equinox Ritual with Ravens & Pines To Leon, Born before a Marathon Fable of Work in the World A Halting Probability, on a Train In Summer, Everything Is Something's Twin To Stem the Time We Spent Facelessbook Two Summer Aubades, After John Clare The Practice of Talking to Plants Ecopoetics Minifesto: A Draft for Angie Foggy Animist Morning in the Vineyard Previous Dawn in the Next Field West Marin Night During Perseid Showers For One Whose Love Has Gone Patience Swoons in the Sword Ferns Between the Fire & the Flood Between the Souls & the Meteors Moaning Action at the Gas Pump Elegy for an Activist in Winter Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways Rituals with Food Before the Feast*After the Feast at Year's End Report on Visiting the District Office After a Death in Early Spring Imperishable Longing to Be with Others The Hour Until We See You Till It Finishes What It Does After a Very Long Difficult Day A Spiral Tries to Feel Again You Were in Sunlight Being Prepared On the Miracle of Nameless Feeling II A SENSE OF THE LIVELY UNIT As the Roots Prepare for Literature Summer Mountain Lightning & Some Music The Elements Are Mixed in Childhood At the Snow Line in Summer Sky of Omens, Floor of Fragments The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto Coda: Suggested Activism for Endangered Seeds The Nets Between Solstice & Equinox Very Far Back in This Life To the Writing Students at Orientation The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice Local Warming & Early Autumn Butterflies Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another Imitating a Squirrel at my Job Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors A Short Walk During Late Capitalism A Quiet Afternoon at the Office A Quiet Afternoon at the Office II When the Occupations Have Just Begun After The Orionids, Near the Plaza From the Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Short Anthem for the General Strike Mists From People As They Pass Types of Fire at the Strike o? o?o o?o?o o?o?o o?o?o A Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility & the Tents Went Back Up 2 Journal Entries During Occupy SF An Almanac of Coastal Winter Creatures The Second Half of the Survey Lyrid Meteor Showers During Your Dissertation Poem of Hope, Almost at Equinox Radical Lads, Blisters & Glad Summers Mystical Lichen Falls Through the Fonts Smart Galaxies Work with Our Mother In the evening of the Search Acknowledgments & Notes, I. ON THE MIRACLE OF NAMELESS FEELING To Spirits of Fire After Harvest Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood The Fuel of an Infinite Life Grammar of This Life at Noon Geminid Showers & Health Care Reform Late Autumn Storms at Pigeon Point At the Solstice, a Yellow Fragment Early Sixties Christmas in the West The Vowels Pass By in English Something Has Been Reading the Fireroots *The Body Politic Loses Her Hair In High Desert Under the Drones Between Semesters, the Fragments Follow Us *We Saw the E Look Back I Heard Flame-Folder Spring Bring Red En Route to Bolinas, a Rose In the Room of Glass Breasts Equinox Ritual with Ravens & Pines To Leon, Born before a Marathon Fable of Work in the World A Halting Probability, on a Train In Summer, Everything Is Something's Twin To Stem the Time We Spent Facelessbook Two Summer Aubades, After John Clare The Practice of Talking to Plants Ecopoetics Minifesto: A Draft for Angie Foggy Animist Morning in the Vineyard Previous Dawn in the Next Field West Marin Night During Perseid Showers For One Whose Love Has Gone Patience Swoons in the Sword Ferns Between the Fire & the Flood Between the Souls & the Meteors Moaning Action at the Gas Pump Elegy for an Activist in Winter Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways Rituals with Food Before the Feast*After the Feast at Year's End Report on Visiting the District Office After a Death in Early Spring Imperishable Longing to Be with Others The Hour Until We See You Till It Finishes What It Does After a Very Long Difficult Day A Spiral Tries to Feel Again You Were in Sunlight Being Prepared On the Miracle of Nameless Feeling II A SENSE OF THE LIVELY UNIT As the Roots Prepare for Literature Summer Mountain Lightning & Some Music The Elements Are Mixed in Childhood At the Snow Line in Summer Sky of Omens, Floor of Fragments The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto Coda: Suggested Activism for Endangered Seeds The Nets Between Solstice & Equinox Very Far Back in This Life To the Writing Students at Orientation The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice Local Warming & Early Autumn Butterflies Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another Imitating a Squirrel at my Job Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors A Short Walk During Late Capitalism A Quiet Afternoon at the Office A Quiet Afternoon at the Office II When the Occupations Have Just Begun After The Orionids, Near the Plaza From the Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Short Anthem for the General Strike Mists From People As They Pass Types of Fire at the Strike o-- o--o o--o--o o--o--o o--o--o A Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility & the Tents Went Back Up 2 Journal Entries During Occupy SF An Almanac of Coastal Winter Creatures The Second Half of the Survey Lyrid Meteor Showers During Your Dissertation Poem of Hope, Almost at Equinox Radical Lads, Blisters & Glad Summers Mystical Lichen Falls Through the Fonts Smart Galaxies Work with Our Mother In the evening of the Search Acknowledgments & Notes
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2014
Dewey Decimal
811.6
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Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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