Leila Wilson

The Hundred Grasses (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Beautiful and necessary." -DAN BEACHY-QUICK

Shimmering and formally precise, the poems of this debut collection "fuse absence and presence in lines full of a feeling that has no opposite" (Brian Teare).

These are poems written from the periphery of an open field, poems rooted in the flatlands and lowlands: the Midwestern lawns, lakes, and creeks of Leila Wilson's childhood, and the farms, canals, and seascapes near her family home's in Holland. "We wonder / what we're not / in the field," writes Wilson-and reading The Hundred Grasses, we too are made to wonder about both what is lacking and what fills the void. In these poems, the act of looking animates what is seemingly static. Stillness becomes not absence but fullness. Sounds are culled from empty spaces, giving shape to life's silences.In the process of this hollowing out and filling up, The Hundred Grassesmorphs into an extended and unforgettable investigation of longing and loss, love and doubt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571318763
• Artikelnr.: 38324934

Autorenporträt

Leila Wilson's poems have appeared in Poetry, A Public Space, American Letters and Commentary, Denver Quarterly, The Canary, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation and an Academy of American Poets College Prize. She received her MFA from Indiana University and her MA from University of Chicago, where she served as an editor at Chicago Review. She works at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she runs the Writing Center and teaches creative writing, essay writing, and literature. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago, where she teaches poetry. The Hundred Grasses is her first book.