Fimbul-winter

by Allbery, Debra

• ISBN13: 9781935536048
• ISBN10: 1935536044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-12
• Publisher: Four Way Books

Summary

Fimbul-Winter (or Fimbulvetr) takes its title from Norse mythology: three winters with no summers between. Drawing from sources as diverse as Anglo-Saxon literature, Chinese poetry, Emily Dickinson, and the blues, these poems seek sustenance and consolation in a harsh landscape. "Here is a poet who listens, who weighs until all comes remote, comes close, from that place where poetry itself begins: 'the country of Erstwhile, of Meanwhile, of Still.'" (Marianne Boruch)

Author Biography

DEBRA ALLBERY won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Walking Distance. She directs the Warren Wilson MFA Program near Asheville.

Table of Contents

Asunder

Chequamegon

Cures and Maxims

Cyclone Cellar

Chronic Town

Fimbul-Winter

Imaginary

The Assignation

Constellation

Firelands

Short Story

Imaginary

The Borders

After

After the Auction of My Grandmother's Farm

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

Frame

Clear Mirror Lament

Office

After Vermeer

Song

Riddle

No Tutor But the North

Clinic

The Wakeful Bird Sings Darkling

All We Need

The Woman's Lament

Casting Off

Fault

This is a Song

Nightingale

River

Ruach

River

Bright Absentee

Piazza di Spagna, 1821

Lesson

Earthbound

Carpathian Frontier

In the Pines

The Eye Demands a Horizon

Notes

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