Eleanor Wilner

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Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017Hardcover, 17 September 2019

Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017
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Part of Series
Princeton Contemporary Poets
Part of Series
Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
Part of Series
Princeton Contemporary Poets, 145
Print Length
232 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
17 Sep 2019
ISBN-10
0691193320
ISBN-13
9780691193328

Description

A major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry

Before Our Eyes gathers more than thirty new poems by Eleanor Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous books, to present a major overview of her distinguished body of work. A poet who engages with history in lyrical language, Wilner creates worlds that reflect on and illuminate the actual one, drawing on the power of communal myth and memory to transform them into agents of change.

In these poems, well-known figures step out of old texts to alter their stories and new figures arise out of the local air--a girl with a fury of bees in her hair, homesick statues that step down from their pedestals, a bat cave whose altar bears a judgment on our worship of war, and a frog whose spring wakening invites our own. In the process, ancient myths are naturalized while nature is newly mythologized in the service of life.

Before Our Eyes features widely anthologized works such as "Sarah's Choice" and "Reading the Bible Backwards." In the new poems, Wilner records the bewildering public shocks of the current moment, when civic life is under threat, when language itself is attacked, and when poetry's lens of collective imagination becomes a way to resist falsity, to seek meaning, and to really see what is before our eyes.

Product Details

Author:
Eleanor Wilner
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 September 2019
Dimensions:
23.88 x 16 x 2.79 cm
ISBN-10:
0691193320
ISBN-13:
9780691193328
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
232
Weight:
544.31 gm

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