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Mississippi (Hardcover)
Maude Schuyler Clay; Ann Fisher-wirth
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"The imperishable quiet at the heart of form." This quietness to be
found by contemplating the photographs of Maude Schuyler Clay was
at the heart of Ann Fisher-Wirth's poetic process, which involved
listening - listening to the voices that spoke their stories
somehow in connection, however oblique, with the photographs. Clay
is a seventh-generation Mississippian; Fisher-Wirth has lived there
for 30 years, so the images and words represent long, complicated
accumulations and recombinations of visual and linguistic
experience.
Definitive and daring, The Ecopoetry Anthology is the authoritative
collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the
environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament,
the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly
complex and often disturbing natural world and inquires of our
human place in a vastness beyond the human. To establish the
antecedents of today's writing,The Ecopoetry Anthology presents a
historical section that includes poetry written from roughly the
mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Iconic American poets
like Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are followed by more modern
poets like Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound,
and even more recent foundational work by poets like Theodore
Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, and Muriel Rukeyser. With
subtle discernment, the editors portray our country's rich heritage
and dramatic range of writing about the natural world around us.
A compilation of poetry of great beauty and searing honesty, this
book consists of two long experimental sequences: the title poem
"Dream Cabinet," set on an island in Sweden, and an eloquent
account of the poet's first marriage entitled "Answers I Did Not
Give to the Annulment Questionnaire." Exploring the full cycle of
human life, this collection responds to compelling personal,
political, and environmental issues of modern times while remaining
aware of the evanescence of all mortal experience.
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