Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare: Poems
Lola Haskins
(Author)
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Description
Constellated When the atoms in my body return to stars They will not remember this five am out my window, neither the moor asleep on the horizon, nor, across her darkened hips, the scatters of bright yellow gorse.
Product Details
Price
$18.00
$16.74
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publish Date
June 04, 2019
Pages
88
Dimensions
5.8 X 7.8 X 0.4 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780822965800
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About the Author
Lola Haskins is the author of twelve books of poetry and three of prose. Among her honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, several awards for narrative poetry, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from Poetry Society of America. She currently serves as Honorary Chancellor of the Florida State Poets Association. She divides her time between Gainesville, Florida and Skipton, North Yorkshire.
Reviews
Lola Haskins writes with the startling freedom and grace of a kite flying and with the variety and assurance of invention that reveal, in image after image, the dream of the waking world.--W.S. Merwin
Ms. Haskins has the wide-eyed power to be tender, vulnerable, and exact. She noses through her amazing world like a baby tortoise, feeling her contours with delicate feet and finding everything weird, and still marvelous.--George MacBeth
Insightful and beautifully written, Lola Haskins' poetry is as beguiling as the Florida creeks, tupelo trees, and wading birds that grace its pages. Trusting equally in pen and paddle, Haskins perfectly invokes the blink of rain on a lake's surface, the moment when a river's color shifts from clear to amber. In Lola Haskins, water has its own Poet Laureate.--Cynthia Barnett
Haskins' work here is spare, honed to a sharp and flinty precision. She travels deep into Clare's mind and spirit to reveal profound and deeply moving illuminations about his--and her own--spiritual core.-- "South Florida Poetry Review"
Anchored by Clare's text, the poems in Asylum range widely-- geographically, emotionally, and technically--and this large-hearted flexibility and suppleness is one of the book's many gifts.-- "Salamander"
Ms. Haskins has the wide-eyed power to be tender, vulnerable, and exact. She noses through her amazing world like a baby tortoise, feeling her contours with delicate feet and finding everything weird, and still marvelous.--George MacBeth
Insightful and beautifully written, Lola Haskins' poetry is as beguiling as the Florida creeks, tupelo trees, and wading birds that grace its pages. Trusting equally in pen and paddle, Haskins perfectly invokes the blink of rain on a lake's surface, the moment when a river's color shifts from clear to amber. In Lola Haskins, water has its own Poet Laureate.--Cynthia Barnett
Haskins' work here is spare, honed to a sharp and flinty precision. She travels deep into Clare's mind and spirit to reveal profound and deeply moving illuminations about his--and her own--spiritual core.-- "South Florida Poetry Review"
Anchored by Clare's text, the poems in Asylum range widely-- geographically, emotionally, and technically--and this large-hearted flexibility and suppleness is one of the book's many gifts.-- "Salamander"
