| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; I; What Is the Field?; Nether; Air Parts; Hedge // Yellow Field; Branches; Beneath the Overpass; Ancestral; II; Character Architecture; Back Spot Turn; Bed Brightening; Lisp of Cloud; Farnsworth House; Anniversary; Ocean Inn; Sail Dilation; III; Pocket Compass; Tributaries; Pond Song; The Solent; Promontory; Lawn Archaeology; Wisconsin Rubbing; Driftless Region; Tracing Her Frolic; IV; Span; Acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
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:I am interested inches. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilson, Leila. Hundred Grasses : Poems. Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, ©2013 9781571314475 |
| ISBN |
9781571318763 (electronic bk.) |
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1571318763 (electronic bk.) |
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