Meteoric Flowers (Paperback)

Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world--mutability, desire, and the flowering of things--they are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos interrupted by lyrics and errata, Meteoric Flowers mirrors the form of Erasmus Darwin's 18th-century scientific pastorals. In attending to poetry's investigative potential, Willis shifts our attention from product to process, from commodity to exchange, from inherited convention to improvisational use.

General

Imprint:	Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2008
First published:	December 2007
Authors:	Elizabeth Willis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	94
ISBN-13:	978-0-8195-6849-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8195-6849-X
Barcode:	9780819568496

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