The hammered dulcimer
Subtitle: poems
By: by Lisa Williams.
Series: May Swenson Poetry Award series
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Description: Lisa Williams's award-winning collection of poems is infused with what John Hollander calls "a guarded wonder." A poet of unique vision, she seems always to be "looking at," with special attention to the experience of the senses. In addition, Williams is concerned with epistemology - the how of seeing. And it is perhaps this quality of attention that informs her interest in the formulations of poetry itself, in its constructed dimension.

Her control of the line, of rhythmic possibilities, of structures both formal and free, is evident in every poem. Together, Lisa Williams's original voice and her poetic finesse allow her to create those harmonies of wonder evoked by the very instrument, the hammered dulcimer, that gives her collection its name.
Table of contents: title: The direction of shadow; title: Sunday morning; title: Interruption of flight; title: Yellow bird; title: What the wind said to the girl who was afraid; title: The fall; title: The tenderness; title: The hammered dulcimer; title: Complaint; title: Eve, after eating; title: Man walking; title: Black horses; title: The growth; title: Manners, 1977; title: A spider; title: The man by the river; title: Banquet; title: To night; title: On the nature of beauty; title: Romantic relief; title: Negation; title: Landscape; title: A wind in place; title: Crater; title: On a worm descending a thread; title: A story of swans; title: God put the noose around my neck; title: The grasshopper; title: The end of spring; title: In the abstract; title: Ambivalence; title: The chant; title: A forward spring; title: Rattlesnake; title: In the valley; title: After a line of Plato.