Wilds
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adulthood
aesthetics
american poetry
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borderlands
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childhood
contemporary poetry
degradation
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human experience
in between
incompleteness
liminal space
liminality
literary criticism
literature
memory
nonfiction
poet
poetic form
poetics
poetry
rhythm
rite
rites of passage
ritual
social commentary
Product details
- ISBN 9780520240414
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 10 Apr 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In his third book of poems, Mark Levine continues his exploration of the rhythms and forms of memory. "The Wilds" is set in the border regions between natural and cultivated states, childhood and adulthood, past and present. "We were boys," says the speaker of the opening poem, "boyish, almost girls. Left alone on the roof, we would have dwindled." Austere and lyrical, the music of these poems resonates with echoes of poetic tradition-Wyatt, Jonson, Milton, Eliot-yet is singularly modern.
Mark Levine is the author of Debt, a selection of the National Poetry Series in 1993, and of Enola Gay (UC Press, 2000). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has also written nonfiction for many national magazines.
