"If there is one person who epitomizes the best of today's women's poetry, it is surely Eleanor Wilner."--Booklist
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Although she has recently won the prestigious MacArthur prize, Wilner still remains relatively unknown to readers of poetry. This work anthologizes poems from four of her previous volumes and adds new poems written between 1993 and 1996. Few other poets writing now show Wilner's intellectual curiosity and range?bats, goddesses, Asian art, photography, and the politics of the body all have their turns here. Her manner is conversational and digressive; the easy categories of lyric or narrative do not describe her work effectively. She invests old stories with new meaning, as in "Leda's Handmaiden" or "Iphigenia, Setting the Record Straight"; she has a profoundly nuanced sense of the poet's mission, as in "The Messenger," "running through history...[carrying] a code/ only the heart could break." She seems at her best when her manner is half-satirical, as in "How To Get in the Best Magazines"?"Preferred:/ tired little poems, taut,/ world-weary"?or in her portrait of the poets' Muse, "the big broad...ethereal as hell." Wilner's verse is not principally musical, pleasing the mind more than the ear, but she ought to find an audience among most readers of poetry.?Graham Christian, Andover-Harvard Theological Lib., Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Abstraction
Admonition
All The Wide Grin Of Him
Ambition
Amelia
American Painting, With Rain
The American Sublime: Robert Penn Warren
Ars Poetica
As Far As It Goes, And Back
As Soft And As Pink As A Nursery
Atget's Gardens
Bailing Out -- A Poem For The 1970s
Bat Cave
Beauty And The Beast
Being As I Was, How Could I Help
Beyond The Second Landing
The Bird In The Laurel's Song
Blessing
Bridge Passage: Variations On Two Scales
Candied
Changing The Imperatives
Classical Proportions Of The Heart
Closing Ceremonies For The Bicentennial
Coda, Overture
A Comment On Relevance Of Modern Science On Everyday Lives
Concerto
Conditional Riff
The Continuous Is Broken, And Resumes
Conversation With A Japanese Student
Desert Parable
Dinner Party
East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon
Eleusis
Emigration
The End Of The Line
Epitaph
Ex Libris
Facing Into It
Filling In The Blanks
The Fourth David: 1. Donatello 1430-32: 62-1/4
The Fourth David: 2. Michelangelo 1501-4: 13'5
The Fourth David: 3. Bernini 1623: Life-size
The Fourth David: 4. Anonymous 1979
Freed From Another Context
Generic Vision, 1991
The Green Connection
Having Eaten Of The Tree Of Knowledge
Her Body Is Private
High Noon At Los Alamos
How To Get In The Best Magazines
Hunting Manual
The Illuminator
Instructions To Painters By Wang Wei, Eighth Century
Iphigenia, Setting Rhe Record Straight
It's Not Cold Here
Job's Wife, A Twentieth-century Casting Script
Judgment
Kazuko's Vision
Killing The Grubs
Knowing The Enemy
Labyrinth
Lament
The Lament Of The Valkyrie
Landing
The Last Man
Laurels
Leda's Handmaiden
The Literal = The Abstract: A Demonstration
The Love Of What Is Not
Love Uncommanded
Made By Hand
Maya
Meditation On The Wen Fu
The Messenger
Metamorphoses At A College For Women
Middle-class Vantage
Midway The Journey Of This Life
Minor Epic
Miriam's Song
Moonsnails
Mt. Fuji And The Martial Arts
The Mulch
The Muse
My Mother's Portrait
Nandin's Tail
Natural History
'never Apologize For Poetry'
Night Fishing In The Sound
Ode To Innocence
Of A Sun She Can Remember
Off The Hook
The Oldest Desire
On Ethnic Definitions
On The Road To Larry Robin's Bookstore
Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm
The Pillar
A Poem Of Exile
Postscript
A Private Space
Reading The Bible Backwards
Recovery
Renegade
Renshi Round: Wilner To Toyama To Altizer
The Round Fish
Salute To Donald Davie
Sarah's Choice
The Secret Garden
See-saw
A Short History Of Philosophy
So Quietly The World (i'm Nobody, Who Are You?)
Sunflowers, Repossessed
Those Who Come After
Thoughts Of A Retired Diamond Cutter
The Towers Of Silence
Trummerfrauen (the Rubble-women)
Tucson Gardens
Two Pairs Of Eyes
Ume: Plum
Unstrung
Up Against It
Water Lace And White Eyes
We Met Where People Like Us Meet
What Was Going On
What Was Left Over
When Asked To Lie Down On The Altar
Winged Victory
Winter Garden
Without Regret
Women Talking
Working The Block
The World Is Not A Meditation
You, Failed Pronoun
Zero At The Bone
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Admonition
All The Wide Grin Of Him
Ambition
Amelia
American Painting, With Rain
The American Sublime: Robert Penn Warren
Ars Poetica
As Far As It Goes, And Back
As Soft And As Pink As A Nursery
Atget's Gardens
Bailing Out -- A Poem For The 1970s
Bat Cave
Beauty And The Beast
Being As I Was, How Could I Help
Beyond The Second Landing
The Bird In The Laurel's Song
Blessing
Bridge Passage: Variations On Two Scales
Candied
Changing The Imperatives
Classical Proportions Of The Heart
Closing Ceremonies For The Bicentennial
Coda, Overture
A Comment On Relevance Of Modern Science On Everyday Lives
Concerto
Conditional Riff
The Continuous Is Broken, And Resumes
Conversation With A Japanese Student
Desert Parable
Dinner Party
East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon
Eleusis
Emigration
The End Of The Line
Epitaph
Ex Libris
Facing Into It
Filling In The Blanks
The Fourth David: 1. Donatello 1430-32: 62-1/4
The Fourth David: 2. Michelangelo 1501-4: 13'5
The Fourth David: 3. Bernini 1623: Life-size
The Fourth David: 4. Anonymous 1979
Freed From Another Context
Generic Vision, 1991
The Green Connection
Having Eaten Of The Tree Of Knowledge
Her Body Is Private
High Noon At Los Alamos
How To Get In The Best Magazines
Hunting Manual
The Illuminator
Instructions To Painters By Wang Wei, Eighth Century
Iphigenia, Setting Rhe Record Straight
It's Not Cold Here
Job's Wife, A Twentieth-century Casting Script
Judgment
Kazuko's Vision
Killing The Grubs
Knowing The Enemy
Labyrinth
Lament
The Lament Of The Valkyrie
Landing
The Last Man
Laurels
Leda's Handmaiden
The Literal = The Abstract: A Demonstration
The Love Of What Is Not
Love Uncommanded
Made By Hand
Maya
Meditation On The Wen Fu
The Messenger
Metamorphoses At A College For Women
Middle-class Vantage
Midway The Journey Of This Life
Minor Epic
Miriam's Song
Moonsnails
Mt. Fuji And The Martial Arts
The Mulch
The Muse
My Mother's Portrait
Nandin's Tail
Natural History
'never Apologize For Poetry'
Night Fishing In The Sound
Ode To Innocence
Of A Sun She Can Remember
Off The Hook
The Oldest Desire
On Ethnic Definitions
On The Road To Larry Robin's Bookstore
Operations: Desert Shield, Desert Storm
The Pillar
A Poem Of Exile
Postscript
A Private Space
Reading The Bible Backwards
Recovery
Renegade
Renshi Round: Wilner To Toyama To Altizer
The Round Fish
Salute To Donald Davie
Sarah's Choice
The Secret Garden
See-saw
A Short History Of Philosophy
So Quietly The World (i'm Nobody, Who Are You?)
Sunflowers, Repossessed
Those Who Come After
Thoughts Of A Retired Diamond Cutter
The Towers Of Silence
Trummerfrauen (the Rubble-women)
Tucson Gardens
Two Pairs Of Eyes
Ume: Plum
Unstrung
Up Against It
Water Lace And White Eyes
We Met Where People Like Us Meet
What Was Going On
What Was Left Over
When Asked To Lie Down On The Altar
Winged Victory
Winter Garden
Without Regret
Women Talking
Working The Block
The World Is Not A Meditation
You, Failed Pronoun
Zero At The Bone
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago in Front Matter
- The Far Field by Theodore Roethke in Back Matter
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- The Dominion of the Dead (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Robert Pogue Harrison on page 8, and Back Matter
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