The Nightfields (Penguin Poets)
List price: $20.00
Available: 12
Quantity:
Description
Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with poems of personal loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from bewilderment at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with thirty-one metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell's Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward the possibility of infinitude and connection.
Info
ISBN: 9780143135395
Published Date: July 7, 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 92
Size: 8.67" l x 5.93" w x 0.45" h
Category
Poetry
Subject
Women Authors