The Wilds |
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Author:
| Levine, Mark |
Created by:
| Gander, Forrest |
Series edited by:
| Hass, Robert Hillman, Brenda Bedient, Calvin |
Series title: | New California Poetry Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-520-24041-4 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2006 |
Publisher: | University of California Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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In his third book of poems, Mark Levine continues his exploration of the rhythms and forms of memory. The Wilds is set in the border regions between natural and cultivated states, childhood and adulthood, past and present. "We were boys," says the speaker of the opening poem, "boyish, almost girls./Left alone on the roof, we would have dwindled." Austere and lyrical, the music of these poems resonates with echoes of poetic tradition-Wyatt, Jonson, Milton, Eliot-yet is singularly modern.
In his third book of poems, Mark Levine continues his exploration of the rhythms and forms of memory. The Wilds is set in the border regions between natural and cultivated states, childhood and adulthood, past and present. "We were boys," says the speaker of the opening poem, "boyish, almost girls./Left alone on the roof, we would have dwindled." Austere and lyrical, the music of these poems resonates with echoes of poetic tradition-Wyatt, Jonson, Milton, Eliot-yet is singularly modern.