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Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017 Wilner, Eleanor
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- ISBN
- 9780691193335
- Book Title
- Before Our Eyes : New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Poetry, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Women Authors, American / General
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 13.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry Before 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 "Sarah's Choice" and "Reading the Bible Backwards." 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691193339
ISBN-13
9780691193335
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038694671
Product Key Features
Book Title
Before Our Eyes : New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, American / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
13.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
142
Lc Classification Number
Ps3573.I45673a6 2019
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"Before books, the ancients had their memory theaters to treasure and keep in reach all they knew. Eleanor Wilner's memory theater is a vast and glorious gathering of years of poems that question, deepen, rage, inspire, and connect. Working from myth and history, through grief and edgy expanse, Wilner is our oracle, the generous troubling overvoice of our age, our light, our dark, and our best." --Marianne Boruch, author of The Anti-Grief, "Before books, the ancients had their memory theaters to treasure and keep in reach all they knew. Eleanor Wilner's memory theater is a vast and glorious gathering of years of poems that question, deepen, rage, inspire, and connect. Working from myth and history, through grief and edgy expanse, Wilner is our oracle, the generous troubling overvoice of our age, our light, our dark, and our best." 'e"Marianne Boruch, author of The Anti-Grief, "The book is a feast. And if you flip to the back, where her earliest poems are, you can see Wilner, right from the beginning, working with the question of a new mythmaking." ---Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's, Praise for Eleanor Wilner'e(tm)s previous books 'eoe[Wilner'e(tm)s] sudden flights of lyricism are disarming and dazzling.'e'e"New York Times Book Review 'eoeThere is so much that is impressive in Wilner'e(tm)s mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'e~The End of History,'e(tm) she examines history'e(tm)s less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us, she seems to say, then we must re-invent and re-shape it.'e'e"Poetry, Praise for Eleanor Wilner's previous books "[Wilner's] sudden flights of lyricism are disarming and dazzling." --New York Times Book Review "There is so much that is impressive in Wilner's mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'The End of History,' she examines history's less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us, she seems to say, then we must re-invent and re-shape it." --Poetry, "Eleanor Wilner's poems, old and new, are political in the best sense--her deep commitment to justice enhances her commitment to making good poems, which she achieves by wit, astonishing lyric skill, and compassionate intelligence. This is a gorgeously important selection of the work of one of our best poets." --Daisy Fried, author of Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice, Praise for Eleanor Wilner's previous books "[Wilner's] sudden flights of lyricism are disarming and dazzling." 'e"New York Times Book Review "There is so much that is impressive in Wilner's mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'The End of History,' she examines history's less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us, she seems to say, then we must re-invent and re-shape it." 'e"Poetry, "Eleanor Wilner's poems, old and new, are political in the best sense'e"her deep commitment to justice enhances her commitment to making good poems, which she achieves by wit, astonishing lyric skill, and compassionate intelligence. This is a gorgeously important selection of the work of one of our best poets." 'e"Daisy Fried, author of Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
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Lccn
2018-965561
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Series
Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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