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Flatlands

Flatlands

Williams, Ruth

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1625579896
ISBN13: 9781625579898
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Published: Apr 1 2018
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Flatlands, Ruth's first full-length poetry collection, explores how her perspective has been indelibly shaped by her state of birth, Nebraska. Some writers approach the Nebraska plains as a big, empty other into which they may imagine. I understand the appeal of that mythology. But in Ruth Williams gorgeous new collection, Flatlands, the landscape is as alive as the plains truly are, and serves as both a generating place and quixotic companion to Williams's subtle, precise speaker. Throughout the poems, Williams images are beautifully wrought and full of surprises: a salmon being filleted opens like a girl's coral dress come undone and the night heat of spent fireworks sleeps in the hands of children who are ready to knock. I love this book-it's musical syncopation, the tight, clean transparency of the poems' lines. I think Willa Cather, the collection's genius loci, would admire Williams's work, recognizing its fundamental truthfulness. Which is about the highest compliment I have to give. -Erin Belieu, Author of Slant Six, Co-founder, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

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