Description
A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.
Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world--mutability, desire, and the flowering of things--they are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos interrupted by lyrics and errata, Meteoric Flowers mirrors the form of Erasmus Darwin's 18th-century scientific pastorals. In attending to poetry's investigative potential, Willis shifts our attention from product to process, from commodity to exchange, from inherited convention to improvisational use.
Author: Elizabeth Willis
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/04/2007
Pages: 94
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.92h x 6.08w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9780819568496
ISBN10: 081956849X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Inspirational & Religious
Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world--mutability, desire, and the flowering of things--they are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos interrupted by lyrics and errata, Meteoric Flowers mirrors the form of Erasmus Darwin's 18th-century scientific pastorals. In attending to poetry's investigative potential, Willis shifts our attention from product to process, from commodity to exchange, from inherited convention to improvisational use.
Author: Elizabeth Willis
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/04/2007
Pages: 94
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.92h x 6.08w x 0.28d
ISBN13: 9780819568496
ISBN10: 081956849X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Inspirational & Religious
About the Author
ELIZABETH WILLIS is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of three previous volumes of poetry, including The Human Abstract (1995), a National Poetry Series selection, and lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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