Facebook X YouTube Instagram TikTok NetGalley
Google Books previews are unavailable because you have chosen to turn off third party cookies for enhanced content. Visit our cookies page to review your cookie settings.

Pieces of Air in the Epic (Hardback)

P&S History > Humanities > Poetry

Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780819567871
Published: 26th October 2005
Casemate UK Academic

in_stock

£18.50


You'll be £18.50 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Pieces of Air in the Epic. What's this?
+£4.99 UK Delivery or free UK delivery if order is over £40
(click here for international delivery rates)

Order within the next 6 hours, 35 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!

Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates



In her newest poems, Brenda Hillman continues her exploration of nature and culture in ways that demonstrate her original place in experimental lyric traditions. Pieces of Air in the Epic is the second book of a tetrology that takes the elements-earth, air, water, fire-as its subject. As Hillman's previous collection, Cascadia, explores "earth," the present collection considers "air"-the many meanings of the word and the life-giving medium we breathe-to test a reality that is both political and personal. These formally inventive poems reexamine epic and lyric, braiding fact and dream, the social with the self. Hypnotic, spare verses use air on the page as a matrix for cultural healing; some are presided over by a feminine presence and address war in human history, while others are set in streets, parks and wilderness. There are meditations on auras, dust motes, and reading in libraries as acts of restorative memory. This work fuses animist consciousness with cautionary prophecy, and belongs to the mode of H.D. and Robert Duncan. Hillman's poetry continues to explore ways in which human life might be redeemed by imagination.

There are no reviews for this book. Register or Login now and you can be the first to post a review!

Other titles in Wesleyan University Press...