In this Book
Hammered Dulcimer
Lisa William's poems are infused with what John Hollander calls "a guarded wonder." A poet of unique vision, she seems always to be "looking at," with special attention to the experience of the senses. Moreover, Williams is equally concerned with epistemology—the how of seeing. And it is perhaps this quality of attention that informs her interest in the formulations of poetry itself, in its constructed dimension. Her control of the line, of rhythmic possibilities, of structures both formal and free, is evident in every poem. Together, William's original voice and her poetic finesse allow her to create those harmonies of wonder evoked by the very instrument, the hammered dulcimer, that gives her collection its name. Judge for the 1998 May Swenson Poetry Award was John Hollander, poet, critic, professor. Long a major figure in American letters, Hollander was a personal friend to May Swenson, and has influenced the work of many of our best emerging poetic voices.
Table of Contents
Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword by John Hollander
The Direction of Shadow
Sunday Morning
Interruption of Flight
Yellow Bird
What the Wind Said to the Girl Who Was Afraid
The Fall
The Tenderness: for Neil
The Hammered Dulcimer
Complaint
Eve, After Eating
Man Walking
Black Horses
The Growth
Manners, 1977
A Spider
The Man by the River
Banquet
To Night
On the Nature of Beauty
Romantic Relief
Negation
Landscape
A Wind in Place: after Stevens
Crater
On a Worm Descending a Thread
A Story of Swans
God Put the Noose Around My Neck
The Grasshopper
The End of Spring
In the Abstract
Ambivalence
The Chant
A Forward Spring
Rattlesnake
In the Valley
After a Line of Plato
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the May Swenson Award
| ISBN | 9780874213195 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780874212488 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 42854288 |
| Pages | 76 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2012-01-01 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |
Copyright
2000
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