The Little Field of Self
Format:Hardback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:27th Feb '02
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Dung Beetle; Be kind to me, a mess. I represent persistence - in the dirty thing; things larger than me; I do not fear. Whatever you think, or like - I live. Oh, marvell Pushing up the hill - rolling around. I feel myself at work. You are larger than I think, and that is very comforting to me. Set in a castle and on its grounds in Brittany, The Little Field of Self is one long poem comprised of individual poems that articulate the essence of devotion and the conflict within the devoted. With surprising inventiveness and technical skill, and without ornamentation, self-consciousness, or self-display, Doreen Gildroy has forged an original poetic style that renders inner being authentically and convincingly.
"The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series which has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins "I am touched throughout by the limpid steadiness with which each poem refuses to be budged a hairsbreadth away from the feeling behind it. As exacting in its respect for etymology as is Dickinson herself, it is one of the very few books I would recommend to someone who wanted to know what the lyric poem can do that no other medium can." - James McMichael
ISBN: 9780226293288
Dimensions: 28mm x 15mm x 2mm
Weight: 652g
72 pages