O'Nights - Cecily Parks

Descriere O'Nights - Cecily Parks

\nIn Cecily Parks' beautiful poems, the natural world teeters between being and seeming--the seeming a simulacrum projected onto the world by a mind's yearning, taxonomy and dread. Deeply metaphysical, and deeply attentive to our spiritual as well as physical uses and abuses of nature, O'Nights implicates language's --indeed, lyric poetry's--sad role in this endeavor.--Susan Wheeler\n \nIn O'Nights, Cecily Parks constructs stunning manifestations of a modern Thoreauvian wilderness, investigating how the natural world gives shape to the self, body, and emotions. These lyrical, transcendental poems study the duality of nature's feminine and masculine identities, and in its simplicity, offers a space where humankind truly belongs.\n \nFrom Bell \n \nThis progress, as in the wind-scalloped snowmeadow \npretending to be moon. This love that sets us scrambling \nover the map's last ridge, our red hoods bright \nin shrunken sky. This metallic weather in which we \nare the ore. This alder. These crimson-tipped willows \nreverberating next to a river of turquoise ice. This \nfollowing the deep tracks of one coyote stepping \nwhere another has stepped. This wilderness \nthat we trespass, burning like berries in the juniper \nand becoming the air in the belfry.\n \nCecily Parks is the author of the chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and the collection Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Orion, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. \n\n \nIn Cecily Parks' luminous and graceful poems, thought inhabits the wilderness, and wildness permeates the interior of human perception. Within these nightscapes, we find ourselves among the foxes, watching, listening, aware of our role as trespassers and witnesses. Thinking about weapons, thinking about how a wound heals, thinking about words, captured, released, spilling over, following a sound that seems at once ancient and new.\n \n -Elizabeth Willis\n

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Alice James Books

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9781938584114

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