Temples and Fields: Poems

by Phillis Levin

Book Overview

Using nature and history as her raw materials, Phillis Levin crafts a world alive with ideas. In striking experiments with form, rhyme, and meter, she examines the condition of our species. Levin is a voyager in these poems, cataloging the earthly spectacle, tempering her lines with an irony that strikes an immediate blow at the heart of things. By turns rhaposidist and rhetorician, visionary and witness, she transforms the cycle of love and death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820333506
• ISBN13: 9780820333502
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"