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Poetry. The poems in THIS SWEET HAPHAZARD are anything but haphazard in their designs and effects, and while sweetness resides here, it's a sweetness hard won by looking at life unflinchingly. "Green is a changeable color," Wegener tells us in the marvelous poem sequence "Neighborhood," an observation at the heart of all that's here, from nature to neighborhood to self and back again. Wegener's gift is to show us that the ever-changing, the temporal, is as close as we're apt to come to paradise.
"In THIS SWEET HAPHAZARD, Gillian Wegener turns her well-tuned ear, her sharp eye, and her considerable intelligence and humor to the California of lightning fires, bulldozed almond trees, and murky rivers with unpredictable currents, as well as that of clear desert night skies, foggy coastlines, and the green light that filters through the sequoias. She sees the beauty and melancholy all around her, and she approaches it with tenderness and without aesthetic pretension. This is a beautiful book of powerful poems."—Jane Mead
"In THIS SWEET HAPHAZARD, Gillian Wegener turns her well-tuned ear, her sharp eye, and her considerable intelligence and humor to the California of lightning fires, bulldozed almond trees, and murky rivers with unpredictable currents, as well as that of clear desert night skies, foggy coastlines, and the green light that filters through the sequoias. She sees the beauty and melancholy all around her, and she approaches it with tenderness and without aesthetic pretension. This is a beautiful book of powerful poems."—Jane Mead
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Gillian Wegener is the author of THIS SWEET HAPHAZARD (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017), THE OPPOSITE OF CLAIRVOYANCE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), and a chapbook, Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press, 2001). Wegener has won several awards for her work including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007 and the Zocalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener, a junior high teacher, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto, CA, where she is a cofounder of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the City of Modesto.
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In This Sweet Haphazard, Gillian Wegener turns her well-tuned ear, her sharp eye, and her considerable intelligence and humor to the California of lightning fires, bulldozed almond trees, and murky rivers with unpredictable currents, as well as that of clear desert night skies, foggy coastlines, and the green light that filters through the sequoias. She sees the beauty and melancholy all around her, and she approaches it with tenderness and without aesthetic pretension. This is a beautiful book of powerful poems. --Jane Mead
“Place, to the writer at work, is seen in a frame,” writes Eudora Welty. “Not an empty frame, a brimming one.” Everything is brimming in Gillian Wegener’s fantastic new collection of poems: rivers, bees, the Old Mill Cafe, forest fires, churches, Neville Bros. Service, the ghosts of Humboldt County, the streets, shops, and citizens of Modesto, California, and most importantly, the unmapped geography of the human heart. Candid and creative, Wegener charts past and present, interior and exterior, in order to create a poetic landscape we never want to leave. --Dean Rader
“Place, to the writer at work, is seen in a frame,” writes Eudora Welty. “Not an empty frame, a brimming one.” Everything is brimming in Gillian Wegener’s fantastic new collection of poems: rivers, bees, the Old Mill Cafe, forest fires, churches, Neville Bros. Service, the ghosts of Humboldt County, the streets, shops, and citizens of Modesto, California, and most importantly, the unmapped geography of the human heart. Candid and creative, Wegener charts past and present, interior and exterior, in order to create a poetic landscape we never want to leave. --Dean Rader
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- PublisherSixteen Rivers Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1939639131
- ISBN 13 9781939639134
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
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