The Lightning Field

"In Carol Moldaw's precise, objective poems, a Parnassian art is reborn. These poems keep a remarkable balance between inner and outer worlds, between dream-life and stern logic. They are works of art."

About the author

The author of a novel and five books of poetry, CAROL MOLDAW has followed a rigorous writer's path, recording with indelible passion the inscrutable, the sensual and intellectual. The recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer's Residency, an NEA Creat

Summary

Carol Moldaw explores new territory in poems that are thematically far-reaching and technically superb. The book includes three long sequences based on art and artifact in various stages of completeness: preliminary pen-and-ink studies, Turkish ruins, and, at the center, the site-specific art installation that gives the book its title and impetus

Product details

• Authors: Carol Moldaw
• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780932440945
• ISBN: 978-0-932440-94-5
• No. of pages: 69
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 216 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Field Poetry (Paperback); Field Poetry (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies