The mouths of grazing things
By: Jennifer Boyden
Series: Brittingham prize in poetry; Brittingham prize in poetry (Series)
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780299235147; 9780299235130
Description: "The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical meditation on nature's forced exodus from the human, and the forms of longing, estrangement, magnetism, and self-otherness that ensue. Arrestingly tender and fiercely protective of where nature lurks in and out of us still, Boyden translates for a new landscape where a brain in a jar is anchored by an apple, a fly-tying fisherman finds love songs to fish scattered among the barber's sweepings, and the players at "the most dangerous playground in the world" prepare for anything with one first clenched and the other full of sugar. In poems built to survive an unsafe journey, this book delivers the now-beyond, the almost-was, the near-forgotten, and the just-in-time." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Poems.