Research Catalog

Title

The wilderness : poems / Sandra Lim.

Author

Lim, Sandra

Publication

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

96 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Moving through myths of the American landscape, the fatalism of American Puritanism, family history, New England winters, aesthetic theory, and the suavities and anxieties of contemporary life, the poems in this astonishing collection ultimately speak about the individual soul's struggle with its own meaning.

Series Statement

Barnard women poets prize

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Small container, fury -- Snowdrips -- Human interest story -- Amor fati -- The vanishing world -- Nature morte -- wildlife -- Above us are the last lights -- Wintering -- Ver novum -- Rite of spring -- Envoi : Lazarus -- The new world -- Crtainty -- Selva antica -- Garden quarrel, : 1.) The change, 2.) Reason is but choosing, 3.) Snake -- Certainty -- Fall -- Cheval sombre -- Envoi : Orpheus -- The concert -- Hyperballad -- Unfleur -- Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, 1.) Invocation, 2.) Now, voyager, (4.) Bride's dessert, 5.) Conversation narrative, 6.) Seance, 7.) Poetry (The author to her book), 8.) My lips closed over the world that broke through, 9.) Black painting -- At the other end of a wire -- Vous et nul autre -- Remarks on my sculpture -- Aubade -- Earthquake weather -- The dark world -- Cliffs.

ISBN

• 9780393349573 (pbk.)
• 0393349578 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2014011420

OCLC

• 878812750
• SCSB-11799418

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library