In this Book
- Fowling Piece: Poems
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
Winner, 2013 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Winner, 2012 John C. Zacharias First Book Award for best debut book by a Ploughshares writer
A remarkably mature first collection of poems, Heidy Steidlmayer’s Fowling Piece is the debut of a highly original voice. As they search for meaning in both the extraordinary and the everyday, these poems, in exquisitely compressed language, display a fierce attention to the history of individual words and a surprising wit. In Steidlmayer's poetic landscape, words strike the reader as at once familiar and exotic, becoming instruments through which she is able to access and make sense of the most profound, irreducible aspects of human experience. Her mastery of and experiments in form are exceptional for a poet of any age. Fowling Piece offers the rare gift of a new poet whose work is truly new.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- I Say So Long to the Hedge Rider
- pp. 3-14
- Knife-Sharpener’s Song
- pp. 4-15
- Fowling Piece
- pp. 6-17
- Heartbreak
- pp. 10-21
- The Oracle
- pp. 13-24
- Confessional
- pp. 15-16
- Wood Splitting
- pp. 17-28
- Bede on Moonlight
- pp. 18-29
- Divination by Runes
- pp. 19-30
- Taxonomy of Grief
- pp. 20-31
- Potter’s Field
- pp. 22-25
- Talking with the Dead
- pp. 26-37
- Short Shrift
- pp. 27-38
- Charon Reconsiders
- pp. 28-39
- Concordance
- pp. 31-42
- Death Outside of Alpine, Texas
- pp. 32-43
- Stars in a Field
- pp. 33-34
- Pulling Up the Lawn Mushrooms
- pp. 35-46
- The Entomology Exhibit
- pp. 37-48
- The Stentor
- pp. 38-39
- Sundays at the Lepidoptera Exhibit
- pp. 40-51
- Saint Elias in the Whirlwind
- pp. 41-52
- The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
- pp. 42-53
- In the Surgery Bay
- pp. 44-55
- Woman in the ICU
- pp. 46-57
- Interpreting the Films
- pp. 48-59
- Intensive Care
- pp. 52-63
- The Eye Patch
- pp. 53-64
- Fairy Tale
- pp. 56-67
- Three Daughters
- pp. 59-70
- The Coracle
- pp. 60-61
Additional Information
Copyright
2012