In this Book
- Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: Akron Series in Poetry
summary
In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe in, Capps still mistrusts authority, feeling disenchanted with God, family, eros, even her own impulsive self. And yet while the absence of faith hints at despair, these poems often achieve, almost inspite of themselves, an odd buoyancy. Playful, fearless, wary, there's a dazzling resilience in this book. One poem can make a grand and eccentric claim, "I forgive the afterlife," while another takes as its title something humbler and more poisonous, "God Bless Our Crop-Dusted Wedding Cake." No matter how adrift this poet may feel, poetry itself remains her anchor and lifeline.
Table of Contents
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- I
- Inside Facts
- p. 8
- Ars Poetica
- p. 9
- The Zealot
- p. 11
- II
- The Sign Said
- p. 20
- To the Dapple Critic
- p. 22
- Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
- pp. 23-24
- Bottleneck
- p. 31
- The Wedding
- p. 32
- III
- The Nearest Simile Is Respiration
- pp. 37-38
- Public, Scenic
- p. 39
- All Night City Train
- p. 40
- To My Friend Grievous
- pp. 42-43
- Shane Says
- p. 44
- Poem on the Occasion of My MRI
- pp. 46-48
- Washing the Brain
- pp. 49-50
- IV
- Spider Milk
- p. 59
- Conventional Red
- p. 60
- Those Little Deaths
- p. 65
- What Constitutes a Proper Planet
- pp. 67-68
Additional Information
ISBN
9781935603924
Related ISBN(s)
9781931968379
MARC Record
OCLC
794701475
Pages
69
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-11
Language
English
Open Access
No