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Fowling Piece: Poems (Kate Tufts Discovery Award)
Heidy Steidlmayer
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Description for Fowling Piece: Poems (Kate Tufts Discovery Award)
Paperback. Series: Triquarterly. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 155 x 5. Weight in Grams: 140.
A remarkably mature first collection of poems, Heidy Steidlmayer’s Fowling Piece is the debut of a highly original voice. As they search for meaning in both the extraordinary and the everyday, these poems, in exquisitely compressed language, display a fierce attention to the history of individual words and a surprising wit. In Steidlmayer's poetic landscape, words strike the reader as at once familiar and exotic, becoming instruments through which she is able to access and make sense of the most profound, irreducible aspects of human experience. Her mastery of and experiments in form are exceptional for a poet of any ... Read more
A remarkably mature first collection of poems, Heidy Steidlmayer’s Fowling Piece is the debut of a highly original voice. As they search for meaning in both the extraordinary and the everyday, these poems, in exquisitely compressed language, display a fierce attention to the history of individual words and a surprising wit. In Steidlmayer's poetic landscape, words strike the reader as at once familiar and exotic, becoming instruments through which she is able to access and make sense of the most profound, irreducible aspects of human experience. Her mastery of and experiments in form are exceptional for a poet of any ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Series
Triquarterly
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810152229
SKU
V9780810152229
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About Heidy Steidlmayer
Heidy Steidlmayer’s poetic voice is original, quirky, profoundly attuned to the history of language, and keenly aware of mortality and the joy that can be seized even amidst mortal perils. Reginald Gibbons, author of Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
Reviews for Fowling Piece: Poems (Kate Tufts Discovery Award)
Of Steidlmayer’s work, Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman wrote to The Sacramento Bee newspaper in September 2009: “She is a remarkable poet (who) writes poems of great compactness and density, as technically accomplished as they are emotionally devastating. This is an age of irony and sprawl, and she’s going – bravely and with great success – her own way. People ... Read more