Flight : New and selected poems / Linda Bierds.
2008
PS3552.I357 A6 2008
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Title
Flight : New and selected poems / Linda Bierds.
Author
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
ISBN
9780399155253
0399155252
0399155252
Published
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2008]
Copyright
Ã2008
Language
English
Description
212 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS3552.I357 A6 2008
System Control No.
(OCoLC)213308436
Summary
"Linda Bierds has always shied away from the easy indulgences of confessional poetry, turning her attention instead to the things that unite us in our common humanity - art, science, music, history - and bringing alive people (some famous, some little-known) who have made contributions to these spheres. These new poems are no less vital, transporting the reader from Renaissance to modernday Venice and on to the moon; from anatomical sketches to primitive mapping and early naturalism - and returning always to the empathy that guides her work."
"These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds's singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, "The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.""--Jacket.
"These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds's singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, "The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.""--Jacket.
Review
"Linda Bierds has always shied away from the easy indulgences of confessional poetry, turning her attention instead to the things that unite us in our common humanity - art, science, music, history - and bringing alive people (some famous, some little-known) who have made contributions to these spheres. These new poems are no less vital, transporting the reader from Renaissance to modernday Venice and on to the moon; from anatomical sketches to primitive mapping and early naturalism - and returning always to the empathy that guides her work."
Note
"A Marian Wood book."
"These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds's singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, "The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.""--Jacket.
"These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds's singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, "The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.""--Jacket.
Formatted Contents Note
From Flights of the Harvest-Mare (1985) and The Stillness, the Dancing (1988)
The Stillness, the Dancing
Mirror
Tongue
Child in the Wagon
Pearl
Reviving the Geyser: Reykjavik, Iceland, 1935
Erebus
From the Ghost, the Animal
Wonders
Lesson: The Spider's Eighth Eye
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp: Amsterdam, 1632
Zuni Potter: Drawing the Heartline
Wedding
The Klipsan Stallions
Mid-Plains Tornado
Strike
From Heart and Perimeter (1991)
The Shakers
For the Sake of Retrieval
April
Ringing
Bird in Space: First Study
White Bears: Tolstoy at Astapovo
In the Beeyard
Nancy Hanks Lincoln in Autumn: 1818
Traumerei
The Grandsire Bells.
The Stillness, the Dancing
Mirror
Tongue
Child in the Wagon
Pearl
Reviving the Geyser: Reykjavik, Iceland, 1935
Erebus
From the Ghost, the Animal
Wonders
Lesson: The Spider's Eighth Eye
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp: Amsterdam, 1632
Zuni Potter: Drawing the Heartline
Wedding
The Klipsan Stallions
Mid-Plains Tornado
Strike
From Heart and Perimeter (1991)
The Shakers
For the Sake of Retrieval
April
Ringing
Bird in Space: First Study
White Bears: Tolstoy at Astapovo
In the Beeyard
Nancy Hanks Lincoln in Autumn: 1818
Traumerei
The Grandsire Bells.
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