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Extra hidden life, among the days / Brenda Hillman.

by Hillman, Brenda.

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Wesleyan University Press, 2018.

American poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Wesleyan poetry.

9780819578051 (hc.)

171 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Text in English.

On a day, in the world -- Whose woods these are we think -- All-night crooked moonrise over mountain pines -- The bride tree can't be read -- Brief walk at Salt Point Park -- For the lovers abandoned in sunlight -- During a suite by Gaspar Cassadó -- Beneath a dying coast live oak -- [& heard a humming, like the] -- The forests of grief & color -- The before sleep kind of everything -- Composition: fringe lichen: tilde & mãe -- Composition: under cypresses, near Big Sur -- Of monarchs again, especially the stripes -- So, bacteria also have their thunder -- Angrily standing outside in the wind -- [Untitled day] -- Species prepare to exist after money -- Extra hidden life, among the days -- Mountain pond landscape, in a drought -- As a sentence leaves its breath -- Some kinds of forever visit you -- The bride tree lives three times -- In the forest of blue aptitude -- A short rhyme for Amiri Baraka -- A summer song from Old Berlin -- Untitled & translation to Portuguese -- Curl of hair in a drawer -- The family sells the family gun -- Describing tattoos to a cop -- Chicago Black Friday protest near Apple -- Crypto-animist introvert activism -- Triple moments of light & industry -- To a life ended in winter -- Hearing La Bohème after the march -- Near the rim of the ideal -- The rosewood clauses -- Her presence will live beyond progress -- A poem for a national forest -- A poem for a national seashore.

Brenda Hillman begins her book in a place of mourning and listening that is deeply transformative. By turns plain and transcendent, these poems meditate on trees, bacteria, wasps, buildings, roots, and stars, ending with twinned elegies and poems of praise that open into spaces that are both magical and archetypal for human imagination: forests and seashores. As always, Hillman’s vision is entirely original, her forms inventive and playful. At times the language turns feral as the poet feels her way toward other consciousnesses, into planetary time. This is poetry as a discipline of love and service to the world, whose lines shepherd us through grief and into an ethics of active resistance.

American poetry.

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