Title
Temples and Fields: Poems - Paperback
by Phillis Levin (Author)
Using 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:
Machines have their own seasons, revolvingAround us, though nature is not their fulcrum.
They too move beyond repair to neglect,
But cannot die like a diving falcon
Or repeat, in the end, names that inflect
As the sum of one's parts stops working. Unconverted by death, they know nothing
Of the glory of noise and the daily
Trade of the ugly and the beautiful
We have listened to, in stories of many
For whom engines were passions, and the feel
Of life the sense of a great sound building. In language that fuses the discursive and the lyrical, the contemplative and the dramatic, Phillis Levin renews metaphysical inquiry. Temples and Fields 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.
Author Biography
Phillis 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.
by Phillis Levin (Author)
Using 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:
Machines have their own seasons, revolvingAround us, though nature is not their fulcrum.
They too move beyond repair to neglect,
But cannot die like a diving falcon
Or repeat, in the end, names that inflect
As the sum of one's parts stops working. Unconverted by death, they know nothing
Of the glory of noise and the daily
Trade of the ugly and the beautiful
We have listened to, in stories of many
For whom engines were passions, and the feel
Of life the sense of a great sound building. In language that fuses the discursive and the lyrical, the contemplative and the dramatic, Phillis Levin renews metaphysical inquiry. Temples and Fields 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.
Author Biography
Phillis 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.
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