VI. On Hearing the Golden-crowned Sparrow. Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work -- A Slightly Less Stressful Walk Uphill -- Dawn Tercets, with Blake & Nuthatch -- Right Before Dusk, Some Meadow Fragments -- A Goodness That Comes from Nothing -- The Highest Part of the Dust -- Poem Before the Power Went Out -- Poem While the Power Was Out -- And After the Power Came Back -- [interruption stichomythia] -- People's Emotions in One City Block -- After a Pageant, Before a Birth -- Poem Describing Time to the Unborn -- II. Activism & Poetry-Some Brief Reports -- The Times We Find Ourselves In -- Activism & Poetry -- A Brief Report :::::: -- In the Gardens of Jose Marti -- Notes Outside West County Detention Center -- [interruption stichomythia] -- Among Some Anapests at Civic Center -- Wiping Tear Gas off Young People -- Report on Another Encounter in Nature -- Views of Moss Dendroalsia Abietinum -- [interruption stichomythia] -- The American Burying Beetle -- On the Molecules of Certain Ancestors -- The Mostly Everything That Everyone Is -- 1967 -- III. There Are Many Women to Cherish -- Winter Daybreak Stanzas for Our Daughters -- The Closing of a Midtown Bookstore -- A Pattern of Minutes During Illness -- For Our Students Reading the Odyssey -- The Working Sister of the Muses -- Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial -- [interruption stichomythia] -- In Some Senses of the Word -- Taking the Sunflower to the Mountains -- After the Fires, In the Mountains -- S/kin -- History of Punctuation on the Face -- [collage essay] -- IV. For Writers Who Are Having Trouble -- A Feeling Right Before the Feeling -- On Days When We Both Travel -- [interruption stichomythia] -- Concerning the Meaning Molecule in Poetry -- The Child, Finishing Fourth Grade Online -- The Scattering of the Lyric I -- The Photograph of the Black Hole -- [collage essay] -- Her Map Might Change Its Arrows -- [interruption stichomythia] -- Dear emerging, pre-emerging & post-emerging poets -- For One Who Paused Her Writing -- To the Poets of Myanmar -- :: [an artist's sound, between the Farallones] :: -- [interruption stichomythia] -- Winter Song for One Who Suffers -- V. The Sickness & the World Soul -- ::: [a ragged white moth passes by] ::: -- [at a hospital: in the east] -- [little breath circles all across town] -- [::: at equinox, same 12 squares, window:::] -- [stayed busy inside moments of not] -- ::: [the in visible is full for you] ::: -- [in the split gardens irrational hope] -- [poem on a birthday::: in shelter] -- [trance poem with the gray stone] -- [asyndeton of adenine cytosine guanine uracil] -- ::: [when spring dusk fills the garden] ::: -- ::: [lines on Easter during the sickness] ::: -- [for the workers suddenly less employed] -- :: [untitled] :: -- ::: [to the voice of the age] ::: -- :: [inaplace with no light] :: -- [ -- ] -- ::: [smooth black stone has seen everything] ::: -- [chiasmus with all the other animals] -- ::: [the voice of the age chorus] ::: -- [pinched nerve in my white arm] -- [the hive interrogates the helpless hum] -- [the fourth part of a triptych] -- [untitled tableau] -- VI. In a Few Minutes Before Later -- Escape & Energy -- The ground of being is changed -- Escape & Logic -- Punctuation at the end of time -- Escape & Song -- Love & Myth -- The Themes in American Literature -- During an enchantment in the life -- Escape & Speculation -- Doubt & Love -- Escape & Exeunt -- Epithalamium for Anxiety & Energy -- On Hearing the Golden-crowned Sparrow.
Summary:
"Poems meditating on differences between human time and ecological time, bringing to the foreground experiences of love and aging"-- Provided by publisher. ""[Hillman's] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful." -Harvard ReviewAn iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses narrative, documentary or scientific materials to record daily events during a time of pandemic, planetary crisis, political and racial turmoil. Hillman proposes that poetry offers courage even in times of existential peril; her work represents what is most necessary and fresh in American poetry. During an enchantment in the life Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now.In a half-unwieldy life you made, underthe hyaline sky, while the dead drank from zigzag pools nearby,if they saved you in your wild incapacities, in timing of the world's harmin a little pettiness in your own heart while others took your madrigals in shreds to a tribunal, when others said you should feel grateful to be minimally adequate for the world'striple exposure or some tired committee... The ones who love us, how do theybreak through our defenses? We're tired today. Come back later.Their baffled voices melting our wax wallswith a candle, the ones who understandwhat being is-the glowing, the broken, the wheels, the brave ones- they have their courage,you have yours,,,; when you meet the one you love,it is so rare. When you meetthe one who loves you, it is extremely rare"-- Provided by publisher.
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