Wideawake Field: Poems
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The chairs have come in and the crisp yellow thwock of the ball being hit says somehow, now that it's fall, I'm a memory of myself. My whole old life- I mourn you sometimes in places you would have been. ????????????????????????????????????-October ? The poems in this fierce debut are an attempt to record what matters. As a reporter's dispatches, they concern themselves with different forms of desolation: what it means to feel at home in wrecked places and then to experience loneliness and dislocation in the familiar. The collection arcs between internal and external worlds-the disappointment of returning, the guilt and thrill of departure, unexpected encounters in blighted places- and, with ruthless observations etched in the sparest lines, the poems inWideawake Fieldsharply and movingly navigate the poles of home and away.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0374299307
ISBN13:9780374299309
Release Date:May 2007
Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Length:88 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:8.7" x 0.5" x 5.6"
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As someone who has spent a great deal of my life overseas, and particularly in areas of conflict, it felt like Eliza had accompanied me for much of it. Yet I think her work moves beyond the specific and touches on the universal struggling to be - and because we are - only human. B.
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