Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman's previous two books,
Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental
meditation and an ecopoetics; this time her subject is water:
Taoist water, baptismal water, water from the muses' fountains, the
practical waters of hydrology from which we draw our being--and the
stilled water in a glass in a Senate chamber. Not since Allen
Ginsberg tried to levitate the Pentagon has American poetry seen
the likes of the hallucinatory wit and moral clarity that Hillman
brings to Washington in her poems about Congressional Hearings on
the Iraq War. Here also--because it is about many kinds of
power--is a sequence of twinned lyrics for the moon, governess of
tides and night vision, for visible and invisible faces. Violence
and the common world, fact and dream, science and magic, intuition
and perception are reconfigured as the poet explores matters of
spirit in political life and earthly fate. If it is time to weep by
the waters of Babylon, it is also time to touch water's living
currents. No one is reimagining the possibilities of lyric poetry
with more inventiveness; this is masterful work by one of our
finest poets.
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