Fire- its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms-is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes-Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water-have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader's companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu.
| ISBN: | 9780819575227 |
| Publication date: | 9th September 2014 |
| Author: | Brenda Hillman |
| Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 108 pages |
| Series: | Wesleyan Poetry |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
Fire- its physical, symbolic, political, and spiritual forms-is the fourth and final subject in Brenda Hillman's masterful series on the elements. Her previous volumes-Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water-have addressed earth, air, and water. Here, Hillman evokes fire as metaphor and as event to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice; she gathers factual data, earthly rhythms, chants to the dead, journal entries, and lyric fragments in the service of a radical animism. In the polyphony of Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, the poet fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and fire at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. This is major work by one of our most important writers. Check for the online reader's companion at brendahillman.site.wesleyan.edu.
Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire features in the following genres: Poetry
Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire is available in Paperback, Hardback
Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire was written by Brenda Hillman and published by Wesleyan University Press
Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire has 108 pages
Yes it is part of Wesleyan Poetry series