Stephanie Horvath: Field of Vision, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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From National Poetry Series winner Stephanie Horvath, a haunting, dreamlike odyssey through the American countryside

In Field of Vision , we traverse the thresholds of past and future, reality and dream, as we accompany the speaker through deserts, forests, rivers, and coasts. She raises her newborn son in rural Vermont; in a California desert she thinks of the life she left behind in the Midwest; she moves to an island in Maine to work at an old motel. These moments capture, viscerally and intimately, the sense of the gothic in rural America---dark, damp dirt on one's hands, a river that wends its way through fog, the decay of wet leaves on a forest floor, a desert over which vultures circle. A meditation on the horror and resplendence of nature, Field of Vision invokes the ancient history that weaves into each of our individual histories---the earth, the animals, the fossils, the primordial echoes that shape us all.