Headwaters: Poems

Headwaters: Poems

A meticulously crafted new volume from the acclaimed American poet whom the Washington Post Book World called a â€œgenius.â€
Rash yet tender, chastened yet lush, Headwaters is a book of opposites, a book of wild abandon by one of the most formally exacting poets of our time. Animals populate its pagesâ€•owl, groundhog, fox, each with its own inimitable survival skillsâ€•and the poet who so meticulously observes their behaviors has accumulated a lifetimeâ€™s worth of skills herself: she too has survived. The power of these extraordinary poems lies in their recognition that all our experience is ultimately uselessâ€•that human beings are at every moment beginners, facing the earth as if for the first time. "Donâ€™t you think Iâ€™m doing better," asks the first poem. "You got sick you got well you got sick," says the last.
Eschewing punctuation, forgoing every symmetry, the poems hurl themselves forward, driven by an urgent need to speak. Headwaters is a book of wisdom that refuses to be wise, a book of fresh beginnings by an American poet writing at the height of her powers.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780393083200
ReleaseDate 2013-10-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393083200

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