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- Peripheral Vision
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Peripheral Vision by poet Susan Kinsolving travels to many unexpected places: the ocean floor, a lunatic asylum, and to an ocularist for a glass eye. She goes behind the scenes in a military hospital, an elementary school, and a disturbed family. Her poems were described in the New Yorker as “grand and almost terrifying.” In this new collection, she proves herself again. Exploring the world from many points of view, Kinsolving takes her readers to England, Hollywood, Wyoming, France, and Chile. In idiosyncratic homages, she invokes Neruda, Bishop, Clare, Frost, and Dickinson, along with Helen Keller and Odilon Redon. While referencing fact or history, she attacks with “a startling backhand of wit and irony,” as noted once in the New York Times Book Review. She writes poignantly to a daughter in Hollywood and acerbically to an ex-husband. Her family’s most disastrous Thanksgiving is described in a funny piece, “Fill the Cavity with Crumbs.” In “The Case of the Carrot,” she reports on an absurd legal action in family court. All Kinsolving’s poems demonstrate a keen love of language, its dimensions of meaning and musicality of sound. Each poem is a pleasure.
Table of Contents
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- Millions
- p. 16
- After Frost
- p. 17
- A Distance
- p. 18
- Page Count
- p. 21
- Remodeling
- pp. 22-23
- Commingling
- p. 27
- Nymphaea
- p. 29
- Reflections on Narcissus
- pp. 30-32
- Peripherals
- pp. 33-34
- Night Sight
- p. 38
- Conspirators
- p. 42
- Unnumbered
- p. 45
- Black Hills by Day
- pp. 47-48
- History of A Metaphor
- pp. 49-50
- Glass Eyes
- p. 51
- Picture This
- pp. 54-55
- How It Happens
- pp. 56-57
- Prosthetic Anecdotes
- pp. 61-62
- Evil Eyes
- p. 64
- Frankie Minh
- p. 65
- L’Oeil de Verre
- pp. 72-73
- L’Oeil-ballon
- pp. 74-76
- Biographical Note
- pp. 79-80
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597096164
Related ISBN(s)
9781597096157
MARC Record
OCLC
1103675573
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2021-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No