Research Catalog
- Title
- Work and days : poems / Tess Taylor.
- Author
- Taylor, Tess
- Publication
- Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3620.A979 A6 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 71 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- In 2010, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor--outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade, and trying to conceive her first child--found herself alone. To break up her days, she began to intern on a small farm, planting leeks, turning compost, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems, Taylor describes the work of this year, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes, "methamphetamine and global economic crisis," these poems embark on a rich exploration of season, self, food, and place. Threading through the farm poets--Hesiod, Virgil, and John Clare--Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. -- Amazon.com.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Work and days
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1597097322 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781597097321 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2015041755
- OCLC
- 926623466
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library