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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.
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- Pages:94 pages
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2010
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:94 pages
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:01/06/2010
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- ISBN:9780819569806
