Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - 3135

A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition. Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with the politics of the post-industrial age. These poems are allusive and tough. While they celebrate the pleasures of the natural world―mutability, desire, and the flowering of things―they are compounded by a critical awareness of contemporary culture. As we traverse their associative leaps, we discover a linguistic landscape that is part garden, part wilderness, where a poem can perform its own natural history. Divided into four cantos interrupted by lyrics and errata, Meteoric Flowers mirrors the form of Erasmus Darwin's 18th-century scientific pastorals. In attending to poetry's investigative potential, Willis shifts our attention from product to process, from commodity to exchange, from inherited convention to improvisational use.
ASIN: 0819568139
VSKU: 5ALYFA000096_ns
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Willis, Elizabeth
Binding: Hardcover