something flown Contributor(s): Crane, Patty (Author), Ayers, Lana Hechtman (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0996475486 ISBN-13: 9780996475488 Publisher: Concrete Wolf OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
Series: Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Award |
Physical Information: 0.1" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" (0.24 lbs) 50 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: '''Hope, ' said Dickinson, 'is the thing with feathers.' Patty Crane's sequence seeks to embody this assertion, and follows in the tradition of grandly inquisitive lyric explorations such as Ammons' 'Corson's Inlet' and Williams' Spring and All.' Crane fixes a steady gaze on the shifting and too-often inscrutable patterns of the natural world--and always with the goal of transforming description into revelation. This is lyric poetry of the highest order, work of inscape and insight, work that dazzles and instructs.''
Enter something flown to witness the poetics of transformation, how bird becomes X, daughter--a world, where "the invisible rides on the back of the visible." Suspend what you know about origins. Lean into what can or cannot be captured, while you fall completely for Patty Crane's exquisite debut lyric of profound and controlled grace. --Natasha Kochicheril Moni, Final Judge for Concrete Wolf's 2017 Chapbook Contest and author of Nearly (dancing girl press, 2018), Lay Down Your Fleece (Shirt Pocket Press, 2017), and The Cardiologist's Daughter (Two Sylvias Press, 2014). |
Contributor Bio(s): Crane, Patty: - Patty Crane's poems have appeared widely, including in Bellevue Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review and West Branch. Her translations of Swedish poet and Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer have appeared in Blackbird, PEN Poetry Series, and New York Times Magazine, among others, and are collected in her bi-lingual volume, Bright Scythe (Sarabande Books, 2015). Her awards include a MacDowell fellowship, Stanford Calderwood fellow, Atlanta Review International Prize, Two Rivers Review Poetry Prize, and two Pushcart nominations. She lives in a small hilltown in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. |