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Prospect - Poems (Hardcover)
Claire Sylvester Smith, Rachel Mennies
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The Twenty-Sixth Winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in
Poetry. Prospect comprises poems about vantage points, country and
personhood, and the difficulty of understanding what is true.
Through meticulously articulated explorations of knowledge, truth,
language, and science's explanatory power, Prospect propels us
toward grasping even the metaphysical. Claire Sylvester Smith was
drawn to medicine-and ultimately ophthalmology-because of the
challenge it offered in terms of scientific inquiry. The drive to
be exacting and precise with subjects as wildly anomalous as
patients is the same that governs her poetry: she engages with the
possible precisions of language and fact while appreciating
intrinsic imperfections in humans and therefore anything human
made. Such a vantage point affords intricate ways of seeing, of
investigating how subjective and personal any sensory experience
can be. Presented in four parts-Prospect, Country, Proof, and
Studies on Anatomy and Mourning-Prospect offers a vision of life
scaled as small as a cell and as large as a country, as bordered
and un-bordered as a human body, and heightened by the tensions of
all that cannot be known.
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