The Lightning Field by Carol Moldaw
In her third collection, Carol Moldaw explores new territory in poems that are thematically far-reaching and technically superb. The book includes three long sequences based on art and artifact in various stages of completeness: preliminary pen-and-ink studies, Turkish ruins, and, at the center, the site-specific art installation that gives the book its title and impetus. Attracting charged material as a lightning field attracts lightning, the poems reference narrative but move beneath and beyond it through a restless and rewarding insistence on making and remaking, on seeing by degrees and seeing whole.
The author of a novel and five books of poetry, CAROL MOLDAW has followed a rigorous writer’s path, recording with indelible passion the inscrutable, the sensual and intellectual. The recipient of a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creat
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| ISBN 13 | 9780932440945 |
| ISBN 10 | 0932440940 |
| Title | The Lightning Field |
| Author | Carol Moldaw |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oberlin College Press |
| Year published | 2003-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 79 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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