A Clearance - Softcover

Wilson, Fiona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937679489 ISBN 13: 9781937679484

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 2015

Synopsis

Poetry conflagration

About this title

About the Author

FIONA WILSON was born in Scotland. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. A Clearance is her first book of poems.

Review

Channeling birdsong, the hum of rivers, the mad shush / of sound from the Highlands to the Hudson River, Wilson s poems are gorgeous and perfected distillations. Maureen N. McLane"

In this long-awaited and masterful debut, Fiona Wilson gives us astonishing and uncommon poems that may have emerged from the Scottish and American traditions but can be found somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, while her readers come to the edge of a question by either shore. Wilson s formal brilliance is all worked through with chagrin, wit, and modesty. The mind at play in these poems is thrilled, distracted, enchanted by the feeling of words in the mouth the gray wet velvet of mizzle, the scandal of cramasie and by slips and turns of phrase, which she turns over like stones, like coins, as they become talismanic to console, perhaps, as if the secret to transformation were to be foun-d in language itself. Saskia Hamilton"

"In this long-awaited and masterful debut, Fiona Wilson gives us astonishing and uncommon poems that may have emerged from the Scottish and American traditions but can be found somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, while her readers come 'to the edge of a question' by either shore. Wilson's formal brilliance is all worked through with chagrin, wit, and modesty. "The mind at play in these poems is thrilled, distracted, enchanted by the feeling of words in the mouth-- the gray wet velvet of 'mizzle, ' the scandal of 'cramasie'--and by slips and turns of phrase, which she turns over like stones, like coins, as they become talismanic--to console, perhaps, as if the secret to transformation were to be found in language itself."--Saskia Hamilton (1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)

"Channeling birdsong, the hum of rivers, 'the mad shush / of sound' from the Highlands to the Hudson River, Wilson's poems are gorgeous and perfected distillations."--Maureen N. McLane (1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1937679489
• ISBN 13: 9781937679484
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 80