Girl with Bees in Her Hair

Name: Girl with Bees in Her Hair
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ISBN: 9781556592034

ISBN-10: 1556592035

ISBN-13: 9781556592034

Edition: 2004

Authors: Eleanor Rand Wilner

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Eleanor Wilner's sixth collection creates a mythology that sees a planet too small and a universe too immense to support humanity's illusions of importance. Her poems become a "choral work of the imagination" in which science is re-envisioned, gender assumptions challenged and beliefs rigorously questioned. As the old gods are reabsorbed into the modern world, Wilner discovers new insights into culture and the human psyche. "I have always treasured Wilner's poetry for its visionary amplitude and revolutionary intelligence."-Alicia Ostriker Eleanor Rand Wilner is the author of six books of poetry and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Philadelphia, teaches at Warren…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 110
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English



Everything Is Starting


Cuneiform: Meditation on a Line


[characters not reproducible] Cassandra


Figure/Ground


A Short Poem about the Cosmos


Distances


Nebraska Hymn to Demeter


Attic Light


Sidereal Desire


Winter Conception


Moon Gathering


What Narcissus Gave the Lake


Orpheus on Sappho's Shore


The Apple Was a Northern Invention


Field of Vision


Species-pity


Transactions in a Field That's Overgrown


Multiple Image, Retro-Girlhood '40s Style


Musical Chairs


Ghazal on What's to Lose, or Not


Last Self-Portrait, as Rembrandt, For Instance


Unto the Nth Generation


A Moralized Nature Is like a Garden without Flowers


The Fossil Poet: A Post-Pastoral


Interview


Theory and Practice in Poetry


"Don't look so scared. You're alive!"


Pandora Jones


American Atlas


Road Taken at Evening


Sir Walter Ralegh, Some Time After


New Mexico Moon


So Faux


Just-So Story


This Straw and Manure World


The White-Throated Sparrow Can't Compare


Found in the Free Library


The Girl with Bees in Her Hair


Mnemosyne (Memory)


The Minimalist


Fetish


Be Careful What You Remember


A space of truth blank like the sea


Notes


About the Author