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Swallow: Poems
Contributor(s): Field, Miranda (Author)

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 ISBN: 0618189300     ISBN-13: 9780618189304
Publisher: Ecco Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2002
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Annotation: From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world composed equally of shadow and substance, filled not just with beauty but also with a kind of savage experience. But Swallow is more than a crisscrossing of boundaries. It is an imperative, a dare: Go ahead, do as Eve did; let hunger take you wherever it will. According to James Longenbach, these poems are "too beautifully made to idealize freedom, too much in love with vicissitude to idealize beauty. Read these poems, enter them, and be hungry forever."
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Asian American
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2002032832
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.98" W x 7.72" L (0.21 lbs) 64 pages
Features: Table of Contents
Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 06/17/2002 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 06/17/2002
 
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From the microcosmic wilderness of an overgrown back yard to the cool, glassed-in exhibits in a natural history museum, Swallow swoops and darts, tangling the lines we draw between the wild and the cultivated. In her debut collection, Miranda Field explores a world composed equally of shadow and substance, filled not just with beauty but also with a kind of savage experience. But Swallow is more than a crisscrossing of boundaries. It is an imperative, a dare: Go ahead, do as Eve did; let hunger take you wherever it will.
According to James Longenbach, these poems are too beautifully made to idealize freedom, too much in love with vicissitude to idealize beauty. Read these poems, enter them, and be hungry forever.

Contributor Bio(s): Field, Miranda: - Miranda Field was born and raised in London. A winner of the Discovery/The Nation Award and a teaching fellow at the 2002 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, she holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College. She lives in New York City and teaches writing programs at New York University and Barnard College.
 
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