Address

Elizabeth Willis

Publication Year: 2011

Address draws us into visible and invisible architectures, into acts of intimate and public address. These poems are concentrated, polyvocal, and sharply attentive to acts of representation; they take personally their politics and in the process reveal something about the way civic structures inhabit the imagination. Poisonous plants, witches, anthems, bees--beneath their surface, we glimpse the fragility of our founding, republican aspirations and witness a disintegrating landscape artfully transformed. If a poem can serve as a kind of astrolabe, measuring distances both cosmic and immediate, temporal and physical, it does so by imaginative, nonlinear means. Here, past and present engage in acts of mutual interrogation and critique, and within this dynamic Willis's poetry is at once complexly authoritative and searching: "so begins our legislation."

Published by: Wesleyan University Press

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Some of the poems in this collection first appeared in the following journals: Bomb, Boston Review, Chicago Review, CUE, Drunken Boat, HighChair, The Nation, No, and WebConjunctions. My thanks to the editors. Thanks to Susan Stewart for selecting some of these poems for the Boston Review prize. Thanks to Cole Swensen...

E-ISBN-13: 9780819570994
Print-ISBN-13: 9780819570987

Page Count: 86
Publication Year: 2011

Series Title: Wesleyan Poetry Series

Address

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Address

Take This Poem

Nocturne

Friday

Ballad

A Species Is an Idea (I)

F.A.Q.

Valet of the Shadow of Death

Unseasonable Pastoral

Flow Chart

Poisonous Plants of America

The Witch

Still Life with Tornado

Wooded Tributary

The Oldest Garden in the World

Vernacular Architecture

Ruskin

Another Life in Green

Yesness Park

Sonnet

You’ve Lost Your Card

This Is Not a Poem about Katherine Harris

Year-end Review

January

Blasted Hymn

May Day

Exquisite Replica

Sonnet

Extended Forecast

A Species Is an Idea (2)

Triptik

Classified

Incidental Knowledge

Blacklist

In Strength Sweetness

Acknowledgments

Research Areas

Recommend

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