Field Notes (Paperback)

Lush with painterly attention to color and form—including Vincent van Gogh's wheat field paintings—and a poet's attention to the rabbit trails and echoes of language, E.G. Cunningham's Field Notes explores the relationship of the field to questions of history, identity, and memory. Verdant with observations of place, the writer's personal and U.S. history (for example, the name "Strawberry Fields" linguistically links a secret compound near Guantanamo for "ghost detainees," as well as the title of a film about visiting a former Japanese internment camp, and the Beatles' hit song), the interplay of text and photographs moves like a shifting light across an open expanse of ground. How lucky to be invited to the field by E.G. Cunningham, to not look away from either our loves or harm.

E. G. Cunningham was born in South Carolina and grew up in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, including The Abandoned Playground, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Humanities Review, and ZYZZYVA. Her most recent chapbook, Oranges for Venus, was selected as the 2023 1br/3bath Editor's Choice from Tilted House Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. Read more about her writing and music at egcunningham.com.