Field Folly Snow

by Cecily Parks

Book Overview

The poems in this collection are meditations on the natural world, written from the perspective of what Li-Young Lee has aptly termed "a passionate interiority." The history and geography of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820331171
• ISBN13: 9780820331171
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful debut collection

I usually read poetry books in pieces, here and there. But I wanted to do something different this time, be involved, consumed with one poet's perspective. Cecily's debut book of poems are great for that because she has such a gift of imagery and feeling. The poems are set in the great west and rooted in river and ground. They have a sense of flight and wildness and languishing, not quite human but deeply so, at the same time. Her language, grammar, and pace are natural, astonishing, right. And she does marvelous things with alliteration and internal rhyme so it's a musical treat to read the poems out loud. Here are just a few of the many lines I had to write down in glee: I could grow old again my one room of world and waited for the click that means the safety is off be the only/hovering thing unworried/love I wanted it (happiness, I mean) this is a kind of love, a state of need I'm shaped like invitation to be water bending to be the next verse I am the instrument of your intensity Shake me/something fierce and I will be the figure of what you did I didn't understand the Woman Homesteader poems, which seemed too spare and disjoint to give me more than a vague sense of changing season and isolation. But there were a dozen other poems I read and reread with pleasure. My favourites included "Luna Moth" "The Minister's Bad Wayward Girl" "Self Portrait as a Seismograph" "the Widows of Pepacton Reservoir" "Beast-Lover Variations" and "A First Warning to the Eel Fisherman." The conjoined words in "Pillow with Boy and Fungus" were fabulous as were all the non-verbs used as verbs in "One Could Peach." I'm looking forward to more.

Exquisitely beautiful poetry!

This is one of the most lucid, extraordinary, and wonderful books of poetry I have ever read. Cecily Parks is an amazing poet. Everyone interested in poetry should read this book! Outstanding, remarkable! From "Self-Portrait as Seismograph": there is no sensitivity in numbers. only in effects. In the calm, let us speak in effects: a ball drops dragon's mouth to frog's mouth. a pendulum swings on its knife-edge pivot. Perhaps not even the best poem in this book! A Ph.D. Fellow