{"product_id":"temples-and-fields-poems-paperback","title":"Temples and Fields: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhillis Levin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing nature and history as her raw materials, Phillis Levin crafts a world alive with ideas. In striking experiments with form, rhyme, and meter, she examines the condition of our species. Levin is a voyager in these poems, cataloging the earthly spectacle, tempering her lines with an irony that strikes an immediate blow at the heart of things. By turns rhaposidist and rhetorician, visionary and witness, she transforms the cycle of love and death into a majestic music: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMachines have their own seasons, revolving\u003cbr\u003eAround us, though nature is not their fulcrum.\u003cbr\u003eThey too move beyond repair to neglect, \u003cbr\u003eBut cannot die like a diving falcon\u003cbr\u003eOr repeat, in the end, names that inflect\u003cbr\u003eAs the sum of one's parts stops working. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnconverted by death, they know nothing \u003cbr\u003eOf the glory of noise and the daily \u003cbr\u003eTrade of the ugly and the beautiful\u003cbr\u003eWe have listened to, in stories of many\u003cbr\u003eFor whom engines were passions, and the feel\u003cbr\u003eOf life the sense of a great sound building. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn language that fuses the discursive and the lyrical, the contemplative and the dramatic, Phillis Levin renews metaphysical inquiry. \u003ci\u003eTemples and Fields\u003c\/i\u003e becomes finally a study of joy and terror--\"the meticulous counting down \/ Of beginning leaf and scattered petal\"--and of the primordial link between the human and the divine.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhillis Levin is the author of three other collections of poems: \"The Afterimage,\" \"Mercury,\" and \"May Day.\" She is the editor of \"The Penguin Book of the Sonnet.\" Her many honors include the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award (for \"Temples and Fields\"), a Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She lives in New York, is a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130371772551,"sku":"9780820333502","price":46.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/898fddb6591756f0b84f5e959f90b86f.webp?v=1732610242","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/temples-and-fields-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}