Weather Eye Open: Poems Volume 13

by Sarah Gridley

Book Overview

The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and expiration of Being." The windmill serves as analogue to the perceiving subject, to the poet, whose consciousness, though rooted and partial, is yet always receptive to being energized, turned. Like...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242939
• ISBN13: 9780520242937
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"