Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

The final volume in the poet's extraordinary tetralogy on earth, air, water, and fire. Abstract: The final volume in the poet's extraordinary tetralogy on earth, air, water, and fire Read more... Content: Cover SEASONAL WORKS WITH LETTERS ON FIRE Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS I .ON THE MIRACLE OF NAMELESS FEELING To Spirits of Fire After Harvest Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood The Fuel of an Infinite Life Grammar of This Life at Noon Geminid Showers & Health Care Reform Late Autumn Storms at Pigeon Point At the Solstice, a Yellow Fragment Early Sixties Christmas in the West The Vowels Pass By in English Something Has Been Reading the Fireroots The Body Politic Loses Her Hair In High Desert Under the Drones Between Semesters, the Fragments Follow Us. We Saw the E Look BackI Heard Flame-Folder Spring Bring Red En Route to Bolinas, a Rose In the Room of Glass Breasts Equinox Ritual with Ravens & Pines To Leon, Born Before a Marathon Fable of Work in the World A Halting Probability, on a Train In Summer, Everything Is Something's Twin To Stem the Time We Spent Facelessbook Two Summer Aubades, After John Clare The Practice of Talking to Plants Ecopoetics Minifesto: A Draft for Angie Foggy Animist Morning in the Vineyard Previous Dawn in the Next Field West Marin Night During Perseid Showers For One Whose Love Has Gone. Patience Swoons in the Sword FernsBetween the Fire & the Flood Between the Souls & the Meteors Moaning Action at the Gas Pump Elegy for an Activist in Winter Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways Rituals with Food Before the Feast After the Feast at Year's End Report on Visiting the District Office After a Death in Early Spring Imperishable Longing to Be with Others The Hour Until We See You Till It Finishes What It Does After a Very Long Difficult Day A Spiral Tries to Feel Again You Were in Sunlight Being Prepared On the Miracle of Nameless Feeling. II. A SENSE OF THE LIVELY UNITAs the Roots Prepare for Literature Summer Mountain Lightning & Some Music The Elements Are Mixed in Childhood At the Snow Line in Summer Sky of Omens, Floor of Fragments The Seeds Talk Back to Monsanto Coda: Suggested Activism for Endangered Seeds The Nets Between Solstice & Equinox Very Far Back in This Life To the Writing Students at Orientation The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice Local Warming & Early Autumn Butterflies Halfway Through Civilization, Late to Another Imitating a Squirrel at my Job Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors. A Short Walk During Late CapitalismA Quiet Afternoon at the Office A Quiet Afternoon at the Office II When the Occupations Have Just Begun After the Orionids, Near the Plaza From the Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Short Anthem for the General Strike Mists From People As They Pass Types of Fire at the Strike o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o o-o-o A Brutal Encounter Recollected in Tranquility & the Tents Went Back Up 2 Journal Entries During Occupy SF An Almanac of Coastal Winter Creatures The Second Half of the Survey Lyrid Meteor Showers During Your Dissertation.

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Trust's International Poetry Prize (2014)
Runner-up for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014)

Fire— its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms—is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes—Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water—have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader's companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu.

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Trust's International Poetry Prize (2014) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014) Fire— its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms—is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes—Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water—have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader's companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu. Winner of the Griffin Poetry Trust's International Poetry Prize (2014) Finalist for the Northern California Book Reviewers Northern California Book Award (2014) Fire? its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms?is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes?Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water?have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader's companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu "Fire--its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms--is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes--Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water--have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life." -- Publisher's description.