false 2246766 1 <p>"Jane Mead's our Emily Dickinson, our most ambitious solitary. Her austere poems are brilliant: endlessly inventive, syntactically, tonally and emotionally rich. Alternately ironic and undefended, she never sacrifices compassion, justice, her quest for pleasure. In their longing and their loneliness, tending to the otherness of nature, the beauty of expression, these poems honor the frailty that makes us most human."-Ira Sadoff</p><p>These lyric elegies, spoken by the "under-self," become a series of subtle chants which sing the speaker into being both physically and spiritually, and through which Mead seeks solace, enlightenment, and joy in the cycles of life and death in the natural world.</p><p><b>From "The Origin":</b></p><p><i>Twice I have walked through this life-<br>once for nothing, once<br>for facts: fairy-shrimp in the vernal pool-<br>glassy-winged sharp-shooter<br>on the failing vines. Count me-<br>among the animals, their small<br>committed calls.- <br>Count me among<br>the living. My greatest desire-<br>to exist in a physical world.</i></p><p><b>Jane Mead</b> is the author of two previous collections of poetry, <i>House of Poured-Out Waters</i> and <i>The Lord and the General Din of the World</i>. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Foundation Completion Grant. For many years the Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University, she now manages the family ranch in northern California.</p> 2252639 1 5 2008 The Usable Field total:21|5:9|4:8|3:1|2:3|1:0| 21 86 39 5 2246766 1882295692 9781882295692 21 5 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2246766.The_Usable_Field 5 1 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 14:08:13 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 14:12:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2246766 1882295692 9781882295692 21 5 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2246766.The_Usable_Field 5 0 false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 14:33:21 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 02:22:29 -0700 2008 The Usable Field, in the poem,“The Part – and the Whole of it,” Mead states “Stocking the globe is not/ my issue, taking stock is my issue – and deciding /what to do next.” And this is indeed a collection that is all about collecting one’s s...more...]]> 2246766 1882295692 9781882295692 21 5 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2246766.The_Usable_Field 4 0 false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 11:18:41 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 11:19:23 -0700 2009
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