The Collected Poems of Ann Fields - Softcover

Fields, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878471023 ISBN 13: 9781878471024

Publisher: Big Bridge Press, 1994

Synopsis

Choosing to include the perspective of the deer, the perspecive of the child, the perspective of the tribal harpooner thinking himself into the whale's body, choosing to believe that art stems from the pelvis rather than from a dissociated intellect--these choices determine the governing language of Ann's poems, a language grounded in simplicity and directness, in images of physical reality, a language in which the abstract can be ahieved only as a flowering of the immediate and particular.

About this title

About the Author

Born March 3, 1921, in Providence, Rhode Island. She moved to California with her family in 1933. She attended the University of California at Berkeley. She met Dennis Fields in 1949 and they were married two years later. In 195 Ann and Dennis moved to Pedro Valley, later incorporated as part of Pacifica, a coastal community south of San Francisco. Over the years Ann continued her education. Her studies reflected the broad range of her interests and curiosity. They included French, astronomy, geology, philosophy, music and paleontolgoy. In 1990 she completed a "word-for-word translation" of Beowulf from Old English. Her studies continued until shortly before her death, October 2, 1991.

Review

The reader is in for a shock; it's always startling to find yourself close to someone whose vibrant voice responds to every nuance of the breathing world, whose sentient experience is so awake that you find youself awakened. In a voice as clear as a glass tappped with a spoon, Ann Fields' intensely lyrical poems reconnect the reader to a heightened awareness of living. This is a book to come back to over and over, whenever you need rain. -- Frances Mayes

Edition details

• Publisher: Big Bridge Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1878471023
• ISBN 13: 9781878471024
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 281