| The Seasons Contributor(s): Gilfillan, Merrill (Author) |
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ISBN: 0970625057 ISBN-13: 9780970625052 Publisher: Zephyr Press OUR PRICE: $11.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2002 Annotation: Merrill Gilfillan is the author of five books of poems, Skyliner (Blue Wind), To Creature (Blue Wind, 1975), Light Years: Selected Early Work (1977, Blue Wind), River Through Rivertown (1982, The Figures), and Satin Street (1997, Moyer Bell). He is perhaps most well known for his books of prose essays that include Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains (1998, Johnson Books), which won the Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, Grasshopper Falls (2000, Hanging Loose Press), and Magpie Rising (2000, Hard Press), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Gilfillan lives in Boulder, Colorado. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2002012473 |
| Series: Adventures in Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6.28" W x 8.04" (0.39 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gilfillan is a storyteller whose appeal is more mystical than realistic.--ALA Booklist Gilfillan's -observations, quotations, etymologies, and classical forms are constructed by equal parts scholar and aesthete. He is a master of Low Distance. Gilfillan watches and then watches again. His writing is workman-like in the sense of what words are like, and luminous in its experimental directions. If John Clare had toured the United States with Oscar Wilde, their notebooks, twisted together in a tornado and edited by Audubon and Escoffier, might have read like these poems: evocative, sophisticated, and as ever-in-the-present as memory must always be.--Tom Raworth Merrill Gilfillan is the author of five books of poems and several books of prose essays. |
