| Prayer in Wind Contributor(s): Saulitis, Eva (Author) |
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ISBN: 1597094447 ISBN-13: 9781597094443 Publisher: Boreal Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 2010, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor--outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade, and trying to conceive her first child--found herself alone. To break up her days, she began to intern on a small farm, planting leeks, turning compost, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems, Taylor describes the work of this year, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes, "methamphetamine and global economic crisis," these poems embark on a rich exploration of season, self, food, and place. Threading through the farm poets--Hesiod, Virgil, and John Clare--Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. |
