Life in a Field – Poems

"Life in a Field is a comedy set inside our changing climate. In the story, a girl and a donkey become friends, and then, decide to marry time. A lyric fable, [the poem] intersperses slow-moving, cinematic paragraphs in image-driven, sensual prose with three folios of images by the photographer Young Suh. Introspection, wish, dream, and memory take on the character of events. A narrative voice speaks from a distance, but does so with candor, attempting to find a path through our daily and familiar strife, towards what remains of beauty and pleasure. In clear, exacting sentences, Life in a Field attempts, against all evidence, to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world, reminding us of 'the cold clarity we need to continue on this earth'"--

About the author

Katie Peterson is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Accounts (2013), winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize. She lives in Berkeley, CA.

Product details

• Authors: Katie Peterson, Young Suh
• Assisted by: Young Suh (Photographs)
• Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781632430908
• ISBN: 978-1-63243-090-8
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 153 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 154 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies