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Weather eye open : poems / / Sarah Gridley



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Autore: Gridley Sarah <1968-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Weather eye open : poems / / Sarah Gridley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (118 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.6
Soggetto topico: American poetry - 21st century
Soggetto non controllato: american 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- Notes -- Acknowledgments of Permissions
Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Weather eye open  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35793-X
9786612357930
0-520-93825-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819662503321
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Serie: New California poetry ; ; 13.