The Lesser Fields
Publication Year: 2009
"Schlegel's debut, winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry, presents a stark, haunted landscape, as expansive as it is lonesome and yet quietly inviting. It's a world where the mind projects its solitude onto nature while nature returns the favor. 'Here and not here,' says Schlegel, 'I breath away/ the parts of myself I no longer require. /A lost lover knits with the natural world after death (Tonight, her name is a leaf covering/ my left eye. The right I close/ for the wind to stitch shut with thread/ from the dress she wore into the grave/ where the determined roots of the tree/ are making a braid around her body);/ elsewhere another lover is able to /fill the bath with everything that has/ Or could ever happen between us,/ imbuing everyday domestic tasks like bathing with symbolic portent in language both straightforward and seductive. A series of haiku-like /November Deaths ekes out little truths (/But for the tip of land/ At which the vessel is aimed/ There is nothing to steady its course/) and another series of Lives asks, in various ways, /Toward what am I drawn?/ Answers are everywhere in this promising first book."—Publisher's Weekly
Published by: Center for Literary Publishing
Cover
Title Page, Copyright Page
Contents
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pp. vii-x
The Lesser Fields
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pp. 1-19
Economy of Winter
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pp. 3-
Ontogeny
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pp. 4-
With Shut Eyes What My Mind Sees Does Not Belong to Me
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pp. 5-6
Icicles Tine Barnward from the Barn’s Shallow Eave
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pp. 7-8
I Pack Her Suitcase with Sticks, Light the Tinder, and Shut the Lid
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pp. 9-
Illuminated Face
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pp. 10-
Near the Creek Emptied of Water
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pp. 11-
Dusk by Flame
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pp. 12-
Allies
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pp. 13-
Lovemaking in America
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pp. 14-
Secrets Objects Share
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pp. 15-
Economy of Winter 2
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pp. 16-
People Live Here
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pp. 17-18
The Lesser Fields
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pp. 19-
November Deaths
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pp. 21-28
The Snow Uncut Is a Field of Orphans
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pp. 23-
She Drops Each Suture from Her Stomach into the Vase on Her Bedside Table
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pp. 24-
A Boy Is Kicking the Stomach of a Dog
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pp. 25-
From a Sheet of Yellow Paper I Cut Bolts of Lightning
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pp. 26-
If Not a Passage Already Dangerous Then None This Hour Feral with Salt and Rockfish Swiveling Wakes at the Water’s Surface as the Strait Swells in the Storm
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pp. 27-
The Lark’s Call Is Smaller than the Field
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pp. 28-
Lives
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pp. 29-52
Lives of Daughter
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pp. 31-
Lives of Greta
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pp. 32-33
Lives of Tree
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pp. 34-
Lives of Name
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pp. 35-
Lives of Furrow
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Lives of Son
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Lives of Empire
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Lives of West
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Lives of Odin
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Lives of Lake
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Lives of Horse
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Lives of Animal
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Lives of Method
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Lives of Morandi
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Lives of Rot
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Lives of Modrow
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Lives of Nathan
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Lives of Cloth
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pp. 49-
Lives of Forest
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Lives of Raft
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pp. 51-
Lives of Estuary
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pp. 52-
Notes
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pp. 53-
Acknowledgments
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pp. 54-
E-ISBN-13: 9781885635136
E-ISBN-10: 1885635133
Print-ISBN-13: 9781885635129
Print-ISBN-10: 1885635125
Page Count: 64
Publication Year: 2009
