O'Nights Contributor(s): Parks, Cecily (Author) |
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ISBN: 1938584112 ISBN-13: 9781938584114 Publisher: Alice James Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Poetry | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2014030175 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.35 lbs) 100 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Cecily Parks' beautiful poems, the natural world teeters between being and seeming--the seeming a simulacrum projected onto the world by a mind's yearning, taxonomy and dread. Deeply metaphysical, and deeply attentive to our spiritual as well as physical uses and abuses of nature, O'Nights implicates language's --indeed, lyric poetry's--sad role in this endeavor.--Susan Wheeler In O'Nights, Cecily Parks constructs stunning manifestations of a modern Thoreauvian wilderness, investigating how the natural world gives shape to the self, body, and emotions. These lyrical, transcendental poems study the duality of nature's feminine and masculine identities, and in its simplicity, offers a space where humankind truly belongs. From Bell: This progress, as in the wind-scalloped snowmeadow Cecily Parks is the author of the chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and the collection Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Orion, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |