Before Our Eyes (eBook)

New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017

Eleanor Wilner (Autor)

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2019
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19412-7 (ISBN)

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A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetryBefore Our Eyes gathers more than thirty new poems by Eleanor Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous books, to present a major overview of her distinguished body of work. A poet who engages with history in lyrical language, Wilner creates worlds that reflect on and illuminate the actual one, drawing on the power of communal myth and memory to transform them into agents of change.In these poems, well-known figures step out of old texts to alter their stories and new figures arise out of the local air-a girl with a fury of bees in her hair, homesick statues that step down from their pedestals, a bat cave whose altar bears a judgment on our worship of war, and a frog whose spring wakening invites our own. In the process, ancient myths are naturalized while nature is newly mythologized in the service of life.Before Our Eyes features widely anthologized works such as "e;Sarah's Choice"e; and "e;Reading the Bible Backwards."e; In the new poems, Wilner records the bewildering public shocks of the current moment, when civic life is under threat, when language itself is attacked, and when poetry's lens of collective imagination becomes a way to resist falsity, to seek meaning, and to really see what is before our eyes.

Autor

Eleanor Wilner is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, most recently Tourist in Hell and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair. In 2019, she received the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, the highest award presented by the Poetry Society of America. Her other awards include the Juniper Prize, three Pushcart Prizes, and a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, and her work appears in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and lives in Philadelphia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.9.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: allegory of the cave • Amputation • Ars Poetica (Horace) • Bristlecone Pine • Bubble wrap • Buddha's hand • candelabra • Carpenter ant • carpet • Centrifuge • chisel • compost • cornea • Courtier • Crosswind • cuckoo clock • David Lehman • Dinghy • Dream of Light • Drinking • Drought • Edward Hirsch • Elise Paschen • eraser • Felling • fig leaf • Firmament • flypaper • forehead • fungus • gauze • gentleness • Golden shovel • Grate • grazing • griddle • Gwendolyn Brooks • hatred • hearth • hermit crab • Hot air balloon • humiliation • Husk • Illustration • In a basket • In medias res • Insect wing • Iridescence • Knossos • laius • Lava field • Leather • Lighting • Limousine • long hair • Manhole • manure • Marble Arms • meal • mountain pass • Mountain Stream • ochre • odor • oil paint • On Assignment • pasture • Patina • Patricia Smith (poet) • picture frame • picturesque • pity • Placard • Poetry • prayer rug • Prediction • pulse wave • Ruler • Running • salmon run • Seaweed • shawl • Skirt • Sleeve • sock • stamen • stucco • surface tension • Tabriz • The Best American Poetry • The Last Man • Tit (bird) • tomb • Trade Route • tree line • T-Shirt • University of Arkansas Press • victorian house • Weather • white rice • Winter
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19412-2 / 0691194122
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19412-7 / 9780691194127