Download e-book for kindle: Natural Selections (Iowa Poetry Prize) by Joseph Campana

By Joseph Campana

Whether wandering the trails of the mind's eye, using via moderately populated nation-state, or listening for the voices of animals, Joseph Campana’s poemsattend to the methods we're indelibly marked by way of habitat. Shot choked with unintentional attachments and reluctant transience, Natural Selectionsproduces from vivid contradiction effective song.

 

In poems either lyric and expansive, Natural Selections reveals within the simplicity and strangeness of center the US a posh metaphysics of position and an uncanny point of view corresponding to the landscapes of provide wooden. Birds and beasts, common storms, kingdom roads, a fraught election, and a few of Ohio’s literary father or mother angels (James Wright, Hart Crane, and Sherwood Anderson) hang-out the poems. no matter if enigmatically refracted or brutally direct, those poems attend to the way in which lifestyles is superbly, violently, and without notice marked by means of place.

 

With a boldness of imaginative and prescient that will weigh down a lesser expertise, Joseph Campana supplies us a suite guided via a centred intelligence and but containing wonderment and awe at its middle. through turns ferocious and captivating, modern and mythic, grief-stricken and humorous, the poet’s voice is usually unique, direct, and pitch-perfect. The poems during this e-book are a wonder.

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