Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pages-owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skills-and the poet who so meticulously observes their behaviors has accumulated a lifetime's worth of skills herself: she too has survived. The power of these extraordinary poems lies in their recognition that all our experience is ultimately useless-that human beings are at every moment beginners, facing the earth as if for the first time. Don't you think I'm doing better, asks the first poem. You got sick you got well you got sick, says the last. Eschewing punctuation, forgoing every symmetry, the poems hurl themselves forward, driven by an urgent need to speak. Headwaters is a book of wisdom that refuses to be wise, a book of fresh beginnings by an American poet writing at the height of her powers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9780393083200
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183184296
Product Key Features
Book Title
Headwaters: Poems
Author
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
64 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
218mm
Item Width
147mm
Item Weight
218g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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