Brenda Hillman, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $26 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6492-4
Eclectic, sometimes derivative, sometimes inspired, the latest from the prolific, mercurial Hillman (Loose Sugar, Death Tractates, etc.) spins a luminescent web of vivid, disjunctive lines into an uncertain whole. Geologists know "Cascadia"...
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Brenda Hillman, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $22.95 (87p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6787-1
Reaching for prophetic powers without abandoning small-scale details, playing with page-based form while attending to the sound of each line, Hillman's seventh book combines the big ambitions of Cascadia
(2001) with the personal touch of Loose...
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Brenda Hillman, Author . Wesleyan Univ. $22.95 (124p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6931-8
Hillman's eighth collection of poems is the third in her series of book-length meditations on the elements (her last book was Pieces of Air in the Epic
). In these aesthetically challenging, yet often surprisingly clear poems, which span the...
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Brenda Hillman, Author Wesleyan University Press $14.95 (127p) ISBN 978-0-8195-2243-6
This energetic collection is very different from Hillman's recent collections, Death Tractates (1992) and its companion volume Bright Existence. That pair took a somber, reflective tone in dealing with a close friend's death and Hillman's attempts...
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Brenda Hillman. Wesleyan, $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7414-5
Hillman’s fast-moving, energetic, and ample 10th collection blazes with indignation, gathers together motifs as for mass demonstration, and blazes among its topics. The last of four books based on the ancient elements (most recently, Practical Water)
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Brenda Hillman. Wesleyan Univ., $24.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-8195-7805-1
Hillman, winner of the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize for Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, continues her sustained attention to the natural elements in her 10th and most lavish collection. Having written four previous books each addressing one of the
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Brenda Hillman. Wesleyan Univ, $26 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8195-0015-1
Hillman (Extra Hidden Life, among the Days) wades provocatively into the strange times and stresses of contemporary human (and nonhuman) life. These poems turn their boundless attention on physical and interior landscapes to explore the relationship
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