Book
Address
Wesleyan poetry, Wesleyan University Press
2011
Abstract
Address draws us into visible and invisible architectures, into acts of intimate and public address. These poems are concentrated, polyvocal, and sharply attentive to acts of representation; they take personally their politics and in the process reveal something about the way civic structures inhabit the imagination. Poisonous plants, witches, anthems, bees--beneath their surface, we glimpse the fragility of our founding, republican aspirations and witness a disintegrating landscape artfully transformed. If a poem can serve as a kind of astrolabe, measuring distances both cosmic and immediate, temporal and physical, it does so by imaginative, nonlinear means. Here, past and present engage in acts of mutual interrogation and critique, and within this dynamic Willis's poetry is at once complexly authoritative and searching: "so begins our legislation."
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Address
- Creators
- Elizabeth Willis - University of Iowa, Creative Writing
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press; vMiddletown, Conn.
- Series
- Wesleyan poetry
- ISBN
- 9780819570987; 0819570982
- eISBN
- 9780819570994; 0819570990
- Number of pages
- 63 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2011
- Academic Unit
- Creative Writing
- Record Identifier
- 9983995485102771
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