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The Nightfields (Penguin Poets)

Joanna Klink

4.41/5 (134 ratings)

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A new collection from a poet who has made "a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent" (Louise Gl�ck)

Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with personal poems of loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from bewilderment at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with thirty-one metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell's Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward the possibility of infinitude and connection.

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ISBN10:: 0143135392

ISBN13:: 9780143135395

kindle Asin:: B081M7M1CN

The Nightfields (Penguin Poets)

Joanna Klink

4.41/5 (134 ratings)

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A new collection from a poet who has made "a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent" (Louise Gl�ck)

Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with personal poems of loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from bewilderment at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with thirty-one metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell's Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward the possibility of infinitude and connection.

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Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 0143135392

ISBN13:: 9780143135395

kindle Asin:: B081M7M1CN

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