Field Folly Snow

by Parks, Cecily

• ISBN13: 9780820331171
• ISBN10: 0820331171
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-29
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

The poems in this collection are meditations on the natural world, written from the perspective of what Li-Young Lee has aptly termed "a passionate interiority." The history and geography of the American West inspire many of the poems' investigations of the environment and the role of the individual in relation to that environment. In Cecily Parks's landscape made strange by human consciousness, being lost is a requirement, though not a guarantee, of being found.

Author Biography

Cecily Parks's chapbook, Cold Work, won the 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including Best New Poets 2007 and Tin House, and she has an essay in A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise: Twenty Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World. She is a PhD candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center.

Table of Contents

The Wish for a Garden	p. 1
I Lost My Horse	p. 5
Luna Moth	p. 7
Miss Peecher's Rivers	p. 8
Letter to the Pistolsmith	p. 9
Folly	p. 10
The Widows of Pepacton Reservoir	p. 12
Self- Portrait as Rain Gauge	p. 13
The Minister's Bad Wayward Girl	p. 14
Every Sequin Is in Undersuit	p. 15
Letter to the Horsebreaker	p. 17
Self-Portrait as Seismograph	p. 21
A Blessing for Stocked Fish	p. 23
Dear William, the Cottonwoods Are Letting Go	p. 24
(It must have been under a hurrying sky)	p. 26
Beast-Lover Variations	p. 27
Our Despised and Unhistoric West	p. 31
Folly	p. 32
Letter to the Saddle Thief	p. 33
Trapline	p. 34
(On every plate she had left to dry)	p. 35
Self-Portrait as Angler's Damselfly	p. 36
Vessel	p. 37
Letters of a Woman Homesteader	p. 39
In Colder Weather	p. 53
Self-Portrait Which Makes Use of the Beaufort Scale	p. 54
How from Politeness to the Trees	p. 56
A First Warning to the Eel Fisherman	p. 57
Pillow with Boy and Fungus	p. 58
Morning Begs	p. 59
One Could Peach	p. 61
Letter to the Stream Warden	p. 63
How to Read a Mackerel Sky	p. 64
(Off to the side of the road)	p. 66
The Wish for a Field	p. 69
Tecumseh and Ulysses and How Were Those for Names	p. 70
Notes	p. 77
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