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The Hundred Grasses. Poems.
Leila Wilson
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Description for The Hundred Grasses. Poems.
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
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: ... Read more
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: ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314475
SKU
V9781571314475
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About Leila Wilson
Leila Wilson's poems have appeared in Poetry, A Public Space, American Letters and Commentary, Denver Quarterly, The Canary, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation and an Academy of American Poets College Prize. She received her MFA from Indiana University and her MA from University of Chicago, where she served as ... Read more
Reviews for The Hundred Grasses. Poems.
"Wilson's first book of poetry is an ode to and reflection on nature
how it works on us and we on it. Motifs of erosion, germination, decay, and migration highlight omnipresent cycles and connect to their human equivalents... Careful readers will appreciate Wilson's concise stanzas that not only build illuminating poetry but stand on their own."
Katharine Fronk, Booklist
how it works on us and we on it. Motifs of erosion, germination, decay, and migration highlight omnipresent cycles and connect to their human equivalents... Careful readers will appreciate Wilson's concise stanzas that not only build illuminating poetry but stand on their own."
Katharine Fronk, Booklist