Swallow: Poems (Bakeless Prize)

by Miranda Field

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From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world composed equally of shadow and substance, filled not just with beauty but also with a kind of savage experience. But Swallow is more than a crisscrossing of boundaries. It is an imperative, a dare: Go ahead, do as Eve did; let show more hunger take you wherever it will. According to James Longenbach, these poems are "too beautifully made to idealize freedom, too much in love with vicissitude to idealize beauty. Read these poems, enter them, and be hungry forever.". show less

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It's just okay i guess? It's like Anjing Gunung. Lots of pretty descriptions but none resonates with me.

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Miranda Field was born and raised in London. A winner of the Discovery/The Nation Award and a teaching fellow at the 2002 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry
DDC/MDS
811.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry2000-
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PS3606 .I34 .S9Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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