Full Description
In his third book of poems, Mark Levine continues his exploration of the rhythms and forms of memory. "The Wilds" is set in the border regions between natural and cultivated states, childhood and adulthood, past and present. "We were boys," says the speaker of the opening poem, "boyish, almost girls. Left alone on the roof, we would have dwindled." Austere and lyrical, the music of these poems resonates with echoes of poetic tradition-Wyatt, Jonson, Milton, Eliot-yet is singularly modern.
Contents
Acknowledgments 1 Ontario Quarry Bering Strait Arboretum Grade Three Two Women Document Then 2 Hand Dock Habitat Animal Insect This Day Last Year in Yellowstone National Park Nurse Rent Triangle Remember 3 The Wilds 4 Song Belongings Early Poem Child's Song Night Autumn Refuge Event Song Willow
