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Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
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About the Author
Reviews
"Neither simply empirical nor transcendental, Hillman's poetry takes what she calls 'woodmind'—a sort of deep attention to natural processes—and applies it to notions of human action, recollection, imagination, and craft."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Hillman's strongest poems demonstrate how animals, plant life, and bacteria continually push back against society's ills: corporations, banks, and nation-states. She is a profound poet with work that asks to be read more than once, absorbed bit by bit."—Andrea Syzdek, Harvard Review
"Hillman turns simple concepts into things far more revealing. The intimacy she conveys, the disappointment, the panic even, these are elements of magic I want to revisit."—Camille T. Dungy, author of Trophic Cascade
"[T]o read [Brenda Hillman] is to enter a poetry that bristles and shifts with life. Her keen attention to the natural world and our place within it, coupled with her devotion to formal innovation and commitment to confronting injustice, are reasons Extra Hidden Life, among the Days is one of the collections I'm most looking forward to this year."—Stephen Sparks, Literary Hub
"Hillman's devotion to social justice—her unwavering belief in poetry's capacity to address root causes of our political strife—ultimately purifies our fallen world in the languages of elemental fire."—Karen An-Hwei Lee, Iowa Review
"Hillman's poetry brings to mind the expansiveness of poets from Wordsworth to Whitman to A.R. Ammons..."—Mark Jarman, The Hudson Review
"Hillman is the mind watching itself, the performance that draws its juju from multiple, simultaneous trajectories, and the outraged hothead calling out crimes against humanity and the environment."—Forrest Gander, New York Journal of Books
"[H]er bold, experimental stylehas influenced a generation of poets following in her wake."—David Roderick, San Francisco Chronicle
"For Hillman there is an alternative model of sociality that stems from attending to the destructive and creative fire that simply burns through righteous ideas to concrete objects that elicit our caring. Sociality in [Hillman's] poetry arises from her radical, eco-centric view. It is the result of being aware that what we love and what engages us in the world will be lost if we fail to find alternatives to what that world is becoming."—Charles Altieri, Open Humanities Press
"In Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days, Hillman has paved the way for an ecological occult. What exists underneath Earth, and in the cracks, is not an underworld or an afterlife but extra life."—Elizabeth Metzger, Boston Review
"Brenda Hillman's taxonomic and fiercely independent Extra Hidden Life, among the Days is perhaps her most radical poetry collection yet. As with her previous books, Hillman aligns personal convictions about the environment, war, and human exploitation with an aesthetic of lyric experimentation."—Major Jackson, American Poet Magazine
"Hillman seeks a median between grieving and remembering, aching and savoring, letting go and holding on"—Craig Morgan Teicher, San Diego Tribune
"Neither simply empirical nor transcendental, Hillman's poetry takes what she calls 'woodmind'—a sort of deep attention to natural processes—and applies it to notions of human action, recollection, imagination, and craft."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Brenda Hillman reminds us how surprising and delightful a poet can be when her technical skills are evenly matched with her inventive ideas."—Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews
Endorsements
"For Hillman there is an alternative model of sociality that stems from attending to the destructive and creative fire that simply burns through righteous ideas to concrete objects that elicit our caring. Sociality in [Hillman's] poetry arises from her radical, eco-centric view. It is the result of being aware that what we love and what engages us in the world will be lost if we fail to find alternatives to what that world is becoming."—Charles Altieri, Open Humanities Press
"Hillman's devotion to social justice—her unwavering belief in poetry's capacity to address root causes of our political strife—ultimately purifies our fallen world in the languages of elemental fire."—Karen An-Hwei Lee, Iowa Review
Electronic book text | |
January 16, 2018 | |
9780819578426 | |
English | |
152 | |
76 color illus. | |
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$11.99 USD, £9.50 GBP | |
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Hardback | |
February 6, 2018 | |
9780819578051 | |
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152 | |
76 color illus. | |
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March 4, 2019 | |
9780819578945 | |
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152 | |
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Other Titles by Brenda Hillman
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
Loose Sugar
Bright Existence
Other Titles from Wesleyan Poetry Series
Asked What Has Changed
Be Brave to Things
The Past
Other Titles in POETRY / General
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