Many Woods of Grief
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Author_Lucas Farrell
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contemplation of life and loss
contemplation of mortality and memory
contemporary American poetry
contemporary literary poetry
contemporary poetry debut
emotional and psychological landscapes
emotional complexity in verse
emotional landscapes in poetry
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experimental poetic forms
exploration of domestic and wild
exploration of love and loss
expressive and original poetry
human and imagined landscapes
human and natural worlds
human emotion in verse
human experience in poetry
imaginative and lyrical verse
imaginative exploration of life
imaginative landscapes
imaginative lyricism
lyrical depictions of nature
lyrical exploration of perception
lyrical imagination
lyrical nature poetry
modern poetic expression
mystical and real worlds
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natural observation in literature
naturalist-inspired poetry
nature and human experience
observation and imagination in poetry
pastoral and surreal fusion
poetic attention to detail
poetic exploration of grief
poetic field guide
poetic inquiry into existence
poetic journey through emotion
poetic meditation on existence
poetic reflections on the ordinary
poetry and emotional resonance
poetry and human consciousness
poetry of light and darkness
poetry of observation
poetry of the in-between
poetry of the ordinary and extraordinary
reflective and meditative verse
surreal and contemplative poetry
surreal pastoral imagery
surrealist field guide
surrealist imagery in poetry
surrealist pastoral poetry
vivid poetic imagery
vivid sensory imagery in poetry
Product details
- ISBN 9781558498990
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 140 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2011
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this striking debut volume, Lucas Farrell offers a lyrical and illuminating field guide to the flora and fauna of ""worlds just out of reach."" With the precision and detail of an Audubon sketch, he turns his naturalist's eye to the vast landscape of human emotion - all the while affirming ""how real this world we live in / must be to live in.""
Journeying ever outward, from the achingly ordinary to the mysterious ""land where there is no land,"" the narrator of this collection, equal parts pastoralist and surrealist, explores the vivid in-betweens - between love and loss, hilarity and despair, wild and domestic, real and imagined. Hungry, expressive, and original, these poems glean light from even the darkest of fields. From ""Further Along Now"" Further along the curves of gesture, the delicateapostrophe, in the tongues of muted suns, we'll findourselves in a clearing, in a meadow of ancient grass,picking apart what has long been picked apart. Furtheralong, the compliments, the tweezers and logic, thelaboratory of hard hats and felt pens and hard headsand clipboards hanging from sky's bloody fender, birddroppings steaming calligraphic so long as the cloudsbecome clouds become clouds and amazed we see insuch preventable warfare our own substancesunchanging. Fountains of ash too diffuse to interpret,too complex to diagnose, I quote the many woods ofgrief, too far alone, too deep.
Journeying ever outward, from the achingly ordinary to the mysterious ""land where there is no land,"" the narrator of this collection, equal parts pastoralist and surrealist, explores the vivid in-betweens - between love and loss, hilarity and despair, wild and domestic, real and imagined. Hungry, expressive, and original, these poems glean light from even the darkest of fields. From ""Further Along Now"" Further along the curves of gesture, the delicateapostrophe, in the tongues of muted suns, we'll findourselves in a clearing, in a meadow of ancient grass,picking apart what has long been picked apart. Furtheralong, the compliments, the tweezers and logic, thelaboratory of hard hats and felt pens and hard headsand clipboards hanging from sky's bloody fender, birddroppings steaming calligraphic so long as the cloudsbecome clouds become clouds and amazed we see insuch preventable warfare our own substancesunchanging. Fountains of ash too diffuse to interpret,too complex to diagnose, I quote the many woods ofgrief, too far alone, too deep.
Lucas Farrell received his MFA in poetry from the University of Montana, USA. His writing has appeared in Boston Review, Jubilat, Cannibal, Alice Blue, Handsome, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He coedits the online magazine Slope and lives in Townshend, Vermont, USA.
