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Swallow: Poems
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Series: Bakeless Prize, Book 1
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ISBN10: 0618189300
ISBN13: 9780618189304
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.98 Depth: 7.72
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780618189304
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.98 Depth: 7.72
Language: English
From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world composed equally of shadow and substance, filled not just with beauty but also with a kind of savage experience. But Swallow is more than a crisscrossing of boundaries. It is an imperative, a dare: Go ahead, do as Eve did; let hunger take you wherever it will.
According to James Longenbach, these poems are too beautifully made to idealize freedom, too much in love with vicissitude to idealize beauty. Read these poems, enter them, and be hungry forever.
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