Midwood
Poems
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 115 pages ; 21 cm
"Midwood is a restless and intimate volume from a poet James Wood has called "one of the most original voices of her generation." In her third book, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, when past and future blur in the equidistance. Balancing formal innovation with deeply personal reflection, Midwood subtly but impiously explores love and sex and marriage and motherhood in plain, urgent language. Written for the most part early every morning over the course of a year, in all its changing seasons, Midwood includes a series of poems looking at and talking to trees; Prikryl's careful attention to the ordinary world outside the window forms an alternative measure of time that leafs and ramifies. With their rapid shifts of scale and unusual directness, these poems find a new language for confronting our moment"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: First Voice -- The Prop -- Fence Post -- Midwood -- Traveling Play -- First Aubade -- Another Visit -- Midwood -- Each Letter -- A Story -- And Hardly -- Window Seat -- The Painter -- Midwood 3 -- The Theater -- Against Music -- Midwood 4 -- The Summit -- The Noncello -- The Dirt -- Our Second -- Midwood 5 -- Little Room -- A Lido -- A Banquet -- Midwood 6 -- Alma Mater -- The Noncello -- The Swimmer -- First Wife -- Midwood 7 -- Gently Spilling -- Another Time -- Ten O'Clock -- Child Star -- Other Words -- Lilac Trees -- Midwood 8 -- Vertigo Zoom -- Field Trip -- Another Visit -- Midwood 9 -- The Need -- The Noncello -- Living Room -- Forest Green -- Midwood 10 -- The Coach -- A Sample -- Bus Routes -- Midwood 11 -- It Happened -- Other Friends -- Waiting Room -- Dream Home -- Midwood 12 -- The Sidecar -- How Kind -- High Tide -- The Noncello -- Midwood 13 -- Tall Tale -- Eye Contact -- Paper Moon -- Midwood 14 -- Second Aubade -- The Ruins -- Next Cycle -- On Desire -- Midwood 15 -- Second Attack -- Another Visit -- Custody Hearing -- The Noncello -- Midwood 16 -- The Connection -- Vast Watercolors -- My Type -- Midwood 17 -- Game Show -- A Palinode -- Stay Close -- The Runaway -- Midwood 18 -- Another Visit -- Home Movie -- Windy Day -- Midwood 19 -- A Procedure -- Traveling Play -- Some Pines -- Midwood 20 -- The Noncello -- Small Parts -- Another Visit -- Trundle Bed -- Midwood 21 -- The Speed -- The Stereoscope -- Why Not -- A Story -- Midwood 22 -- Purple Room -- The Noncello -- Jet Lag -- Midwood 23 -- Art Deco -- A Haircut -- New Apartments -- Midwood 24 -- My Papers -- Her Balloon -- Second Nocturnal.
ISBN:
9781324035213
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LITERATURE Poetry Pri | Sandhills Indoors | First Level Display, Nonfiction | In |