03794nam 2200961 a 450 991081966250332120230617041858.01-282-35793-X97866123579300-520-93825-910.1525/9780520938250(CKB)2430000000010914(EBL)837216(OCoLC)773564939(SSID)ssj0000313030(PQKBManifestationID)11254620(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313030(PQKBWorkID)10352478(PQKB)11620060(MiAaPQ)EBC837216(DE-B1597)520913(DE-B1597)9780520938250(Au-PeEL)EBL837216(CaPaEBR)ebr10676272(CaONFJC)MIL235793(EXLCZ)99243000000001091420040401d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWeather eye open[electronic resource] poems /Sarah GridleyBerkeley University of California Press20051 online resource (118 p.)New California poetry ;v 13Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24293-9 0-520-24289-0 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- Notes -- Acknowledgments of PermissionsThe windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and expiration of Being." The windmill serves as analogue to the perceiving subject, to the poet, whose consciousness, though rooted and partial, is yet always receptive to being energized, turned. Like open sails, the perceiver ushers the weather indoors, converting one motion, the wind, to another, the grinding burrstones. The poems in this collection pursue a similar transmutation through language, a staying open to its various weather (and whether) systems. For Sarah Gridley, language strikes at the "X" of experience: part presence and part absence, part spirit and part matter, part home and part homesickness, part harnessed and part wild. In the face of such weather, the stance of the poet is both rapacious and passive, searching and struck still.New California poetry ;13.American poetry21st centuryamerican poets.beautiful.contemporary poetry.english majors.female authors.homesickness.humanity.lit students.literary studies.literature and art.lyric poetry.modern landscape.modern poets.modern world.nature imagery.nature.perception.poems.poet as subject.poetic consciousness.poetry books.poetry collection.poetry.presence and absence.spirit and matter.transmutations.weather poems.weather.windmill.American poetry811/.6Gridley Sarah1968-1687787MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819662503321Weather eye open4061534UNINA