The Nightfields (Poetry)

The Nightfields (Poetry)
Joanna Klink
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7 Jul 2020 US
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9780143135395
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Joanna Klink' s fifth book begins with personal poems of loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with "Night Sky," thirty metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell' s Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an open-air observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward a sense of infinitude and connection.
Advance praise for The Nightfields "Joanna Klink' s The Nightfields has all the visionary lucidity and incisiveness that marks the true originality of her work. The subtlety of what she sees is matched by a language at once hospitable and unsettling. This book has the fluency of someone knowing and finding their way. These are remarkable poems. " --Adam Phillips"Klink writes with exquisite poignancy, an expansive and stark lyric that has become her signature in this collection. The Nightfieldsreminds us that ' to want a simple life/might mean/to have given up//on expectation' yet the collection offers us of the privilege of Klink' s discerning and sometimes ruthless eye on what it means to live from that expectation, to live fully among the wreckage and the triumph. " --Carmen Gimenez Smith "Joanna Klink goes toward poetry with her whole life. To me, she is a landscape poet, who draws more than paints. Her poems contain stars and bone; hope and mercy; meteorology and friendship. Instead of plot, there is subplot, allowing language and feeling to run free. Perhaps there is a spiritual dimension, too, with a pilgrimage through cities and grasslands. In our prosaic age, Klink is a completely original poet--symbolic and vatic--rendering the best poems of her life. " --Henri ColePraise for Joanna Klink: "In a culture inclined to mistake opacity for depth and stridency for passionate feeling, Joanna Klink has made a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent. She navigates between those most suspicious extremes, despair and ecstasy, without ever seeming to be a poet dependent on extremes. Taken together, her books are an amazing experience: harrowing, ravishing, essential, unstoppable. " --Louise Gluck, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award citation"[Klink' s] poems illuminate the membrane between loneliness and solitude. " --Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin"Klink writes love poems to nature . . . Walt Whitman might find something to envy in the way Klink' s more gentle sense of song tumbles out of simple, individual acts of attention. " --Chicago Tribune "[Klink' s] work is a record not only of the ecstasy of engagement with the natural world, but also of the mixed and passionately felt consequences of detachment from a noisier, more chaotic world. " --Boston Review
Joanna Klink is the author of four books of poetry. She has received awards and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Jeannette Haien Ballard, Civitella Ranieri, the Bogliasco Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Trust of Amy Lowell, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is teaching at the Michener Center in Austin.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780143135395
Published: 7 Jul 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Plume
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 96

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