Field folly snow : poems / by Cecily Parks.

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9780820331171

Personal Author:

Parks, Cecily

Publication Information:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2008]

Physical Description:

viii, 75 pages ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Wish for a Garden -- I Lost My Horse -- Luna Moth -- Miss Peecher's Rivers -- Letter to the Pistolsmith -- Folly -- Widows of Pepacton Reservoir -- Self- Portrait as Rain Gauge -- Minister's Bad Wayward Girl -- Every Sequin Is in Undersuit -- Letter to the Horsebreaker -- Self-Portrait as Seismograph -- A Blessing for Stocked Fish -- Dear William, the Cottonwoods Are Letting Go -- (It must have been under a hurrying sky) -- Beast-Lover Variations -- Our Despised and Unhistoric West -- Folly -- Letter to the Saddle Thief -- Trapline -- (On every plate she had left to dry) -- Self-Portrait as Angler's Damselfly -- Vessel -- Letters of a Woman Homesteader -- In Colder Weather.

Summary:

The poems in this collection are meditations on the natural world, written from the perspective of what Li-Young Lee has aptly termed "a passionate interiority." The history and geography of the American West inspire many of the poems' investigations of the environment and the role of the individual in relation to that environment. In Cecily Parks's landscape made strange by human consciousness, being lost is a requirement, though not a guarantee, of being found. -- Publisher's website.

Subject Term:

Ecology -- Poetry

Human ecology -- Poetry

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OCLC Number:

ocn181602023