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The final volume in the poet's extraordinary tetralogy on earth, air, water, and fireWinner of the Griffin Poetry Trust's International Poetry Prize (2014)Runner-up for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014)Fire— its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms—is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes—Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water—have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader's companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780819575227 |
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Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
Publication date: | 09/09/2014 |
Series: | Wesleyan Poetry Series |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 128 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d) |
About the Author
BRENDA HILLMAN is an activist, writer, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry, all from Wesleyan University Press, including Practical Water, for which she won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California, as the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry.
Table of Contents
I. ON THE MIRACLE OF NAMELESS FEELINGTo Spirits of FireAfter HarvestSome Kinds of Reading in ChildhoodThe Fuel of an Infinite LifeGrammar of This Life at NoonGeminid Showers & Health Care ReformLate Autumn Storms at Pigeon PointAt the Solstice, a Yellow FragmentEarly Sixties Christmas in the WestThe Vowels Pass By in EnglishSomething Has Been Reading the Fireroots •The Body Politic Loses Her HairIn High Desert Under the DronesBetween Semesters, the Fragments Follow Us •We Saw the E Look BackI Heard Flame-Folder Spring Bring RedEn Route to Bolinas, a RoseIn the Room of Glass BreastsEquinox Ritual with Ravens & PinesTo Leon, Born before a MarathonFable of Work in the WorldA Halting Probability, on a TrainIn Summer, Everything Is Something's TwinTo Stem the Time We SpentFacelessbookTwo Summer Aubades, After John ClareThe Practice of Talking to PlantsEcopoetics Minifesto: A Draft for AngieFoggy Animist Morning in the VineyardPrevious Dawn in the Next FieldWest Marin Night During Perseid ShowersFor One Whose Love Has GonePatience Swoons in the Sword FernsBetween the Fire & the FloodBetween the Souls & the MeteorsMoaning Action at the Gas PumpElegy for an Activist in WinterAutumn Ritual with Hate Turned SidewaysRituals with Food Before the Feast•After the Feast at Year's EndReport on Visiting the District OfficeAfter a Death in Early SpringImperishable Longing to Be with OthersThe Hour Until We See YouTill It Finishes What It DoesAfter a Very Long Difficult DayA Spiral Tries to Feel AgainYou Were in Sunlight Being PreparedOn the Miracle of Nameless FeelingII A SENSE OF THE LIVELY UNIT As the Roots Prepare for LiteratureSummer Mountain Lightning & Some MusicThe Elements Are Mixed in ChildhoodAt the Snow Line in SummerSky of Omens, Floor of FragmentsThe Seeds Talk Back to MonsantoCoda: Suggested Activism for Endangered SeedsThe Nets Between Solstice & EquinoxVery Far Back in This LifeTo the Writing Students at OrientationThe Letters Learn to Breathe TwiceLocal Warming & Early Autumn ButterfliesHalfway Through Civilization, Late to AnotherImitating a Squirrel at my JobExperiments with Poetry Are Taken OutdoorsA Short Walk During Late CapitalismA Quiet Afternoon at the OfficeA Quiet Afternoon at the Office IIWhen the Occupations Have Just BegunAfter The Orionids, Near the PlazaFrom the Dictionary of Indo-European RootsShort Anthem for the General StrikeMists From People As They PassTypes of Fire at the Strikeo—o—o o—o—o o—o—o o—o—oA Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility& the Tents Went Back Up2 Journal Entries During Occupy SFAn Almanac of Coastal Winter CreaturesThe Second Half of the SurveyLyrid Meteor Showers During Your DissertationPoem of Hope, Almost at EquinoxRadical Lads, Blisters & Glad SummersMystical Lichen Falls Through the FontsSmart Galaxies Work with Our MotherIn the evening of the SearchAcknowledgments & NotesWhat People are Saying About This
Dana Levin
“Brenda Hillman’s latest poems blaze up like matches—they dance and flicker out by the bottom of the page . . . Hillman’s book reminds us that one of the functions of art is to disturb: to startle us out of the ossified, inflexible forms of the routine and conventional. In this, Hillman has a particularly American genius.”
Charles Altieri
“Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire . . . celebrates poetry as a mode of sheer delight in the kinds of being that are committed to finding pleasure and freedom and connection as elementary conditions of being in the world.”
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