Circles Where the Head Should Be (Volume 18) (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) - Softcover

Wilkinson, Caki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574413090 ISBN 13: 9781574413090

Publisher: University of North Texas Press, 2011

Synopsis

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010.

The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps.
Circles Where the Head Should Be has its own distinctive voice, a lively intelligence, insatiable curiosity, and a decided command of form. These qualities play off one another in ways that instruct and delight. An irresistible book.”—J. D. McClatchy, author of Mercury Dressing: Poems, judge


Storm and Stress


That a spider web supports a bead of rain
is as significant
as rain’s resolve, poised where some spinneret
has pitched its threads aslant,
since, held or holding, each endures a strain—
one presses, one reacts.
Don’t ask me what it’s worth. Despite the facts
of matter’s favored states,
such concentration’s of no consequence
beyond this life, a net
tailored to break, too late for recompense
when weight evaporates.

About this title

About the Author

 CAKI WILKINSON graduated from Rhodes College and Johns Hopkins University. She received a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Yale Review, and other journals. She lives in Cincinnati.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of North Texas Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574413090
• ISBN 13: 9781574413090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80