false 4776721 1 <B>From this critically acclaimed and award-winning poet, a stunning volume of new and selected works that display her signature intelligence, depth, and vigorous originality</B>.<BR><BR> Hailed as “visionary” by <I>The New Yorker</I> and “radiant” by <I>The New York Times Book Review</I>, Linda Bierds returns with a collection that gives us the best of her astonishing work, and then gives us more: the gift of fifteen new poems. As a poet, she has always shied away from the easy indulgences of confessional poetry, turning her attention instead to the things that unite us in our common humanity— art, science, music, history—and bringing alive people (some famous, some little-known) who have made contributions to these spheres. The new poems are no less vital, transporting the reader from medieval to modern-day Venice to the moon; from anatomical sketches to primitive mapping and early naturalism— returning always to the empathy that guides her work.<BR><BR> These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds’s singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, “The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.” 4841555 2 10 2008 Flight: New and Selected Poems total:10|5:5|4:3|3:2|2:0|1:0| 10 43 24 0 0 0 false false Sun Nov 29 08:25:40 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 08:25:40 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Oct 26 11:02:55 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 06:23:32 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 11:02:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 18 01:49:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 01:49:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 14 11:09:27 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 11:09:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 30 10:15:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 10:15:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 14 19:17:40 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 19:17:40 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jun 25 09:58:55 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 11:44:14 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 09:58:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 03 21:14:15 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 21:14:15 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 06:08:46 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 06:09:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 02 19:00:02 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 19:00:05 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 29 17:07:12 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 17:07:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 28 12:02:44 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 12:02:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 12:32:49 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:32:49 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 18:21:31 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 18:21:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 20 18:03:22 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 18:03:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 07 12:04:11 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 12:04:11 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 09 15:04:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 15:04:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 04 07:15:42 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 07:15:44 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Mar 16 23:03:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 03 23:37:03 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 23:03:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 24 23:17:44 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 23:17:45 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4776721