Pieces of air in the epic /
Hillman, Brenda.
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press,
c2005.
"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. Just as Hillman's 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."--BOOK JACKET.
I: Street corner -- Thyme suites -- Reversible wind -- Air in the epic -- [Half-tractate] -- Near stations -- Green pants & a bamboo flute -- [Untitled psalm] -- The value of empty protest -- Doppler effect in diagram three -- Study of air in triangles -- Wind treaties -- Altamont pass -- [Half-tractate] -- 6 components from Aristotle -- White fir description -- Statueless architecture -- The corporate number rescue album -- The E in being -- [Half-tractate] -- On Carmerstrasse -- Nine untitled Epyllions -- II: [Interruption] -- Your fate -- Echo 858 -- Manzanita description -- [Untitled psalm] -- Clouds near San Leandro -- An oddness -- Silent reading -- A nextopia -- Library dust -- Reference-room aura -- Dust acolytes -- Fourth-floor Hecatomb -- Brittle economics monographs -- Platonic oxygen -- Restless auras -- Dust dialectical -- Epoch of dust -- String theory Sutra -- Summer garden -- Mars field speaks to Vvedensky -- Eyes in Aspens.
"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. Just as Hillman's 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Poetry.
American poetry