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Before Our Eyes - New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017 (Paperback)
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Before Our Eyes - New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017 (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
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Loot Price R445
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A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for
distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry Before Our Eyes
gathers more than thirty new poems by Eleanor Wilner, along with
representative selections from her seven previous books, to present
a major overview of her distinguished body of work. A poet who
engages with history in lyrical language, Wilner creates worlds
that reflect on and illuminate the actual one, drawing on the power
of communal myth and memory to transform them into agents of
change. In these poems, well-known figures step out of old texts to
alter their stories and new figures arise out of the local air-a
girl with a fury of bees in her hair, homesick statues that step
down from their pedestals, a bat cave whose altar bears a judgment
on our worship of war, and a frog whose spring wakening invites our
own. In the process, ancient myths are naturalized while nature is
newly mythologized in the service of life. Before Our Eyes features
widely anthologized works such as "Sarah's Choice" and "Reading the
Bible Backwards." In the new poems, Wilner records the bewildering
public shocks of the current moment, when civic life is under
threat, when language itself is attacked, and when poetry's lens of
collective imagination becomes a way to resist falsity, to seek
meaning, and to really see what is before our eyes.
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