| Address Contributor(s): Willis, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819570982 ISBN-13: 9780819570987 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2010042230 |
| Series: Wesleyan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.34" W x 8.26" (0.53 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New poems from an original and challenging American voice Winner of the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship / PEN New England Award (2012) Address draws us into visible and invisible architectures, into acts of intimate and public address. These poems are concentrated, polyvocal, and sharply attentive to acts of representation; they take personally their politics and in the process reveal something about the way civic structures inhabit the imagination. Poisonous plants, witches, anthems, bees--beneath their surface, we glimpse the fragility of our founding, republican aspirations and witness a disintegrating landscape artfully transformed. If a poem can serve as a kind of astrolabe, measuring distances both cosmic and immediate, temporal and physical, it does so by imaginative, nonlinear means. Here, past and present engage in acts of mutual interrogation and critique, and within this dynamic Willis's poetry is at once complexly authoritative and searching: "so begins our legislation." Check for the online reader's companion at http: //address.site.wesleyan.edu. |