Wideawake Field: Poems

by Eliza Griswold

Book Overview

The chairs have come in and the crisp yellow thwock of the ball being hit says somehow, now that it's fall, I'm a memory of myself. My whole old life I mourn you sometimes in places you would have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374299307
• ISBN13: 9780374299309
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Welcome reprieve

As someone who has spent a great deal of my life overseas, and particularly in areas of conflict, it felt like Eliza had accompanied me for much of it. Yet I think her work moves beyond the specific and touches on the universal struggling to be - and because we are - only human. B.