Burnt Mountain
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Burnt Mountain

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Burnt Mountain

About this book

Since her first collection, The Keep, Emily Wilson has forged a singular voice in American poetry, one that traces and complicates the dynamic relationships between language and the natural, aesthetics and science, material forms and inwardness. Her new collection, Burnt Mountain, is set on the rugged slopes of an inauspicious mountain, densely wooded, long ago scoured by fire, and marked by generations of human presence. Fiercely attuned to the match and mismatch between mind and mountain—the ways in which the natural and the human construct and deconstruct each other in the contested realms of art, wilderness, history, devotion, and politics—Wilson's poetics reckon with resistant forces of nature and with the human drive to subdue what eludes us. Above all, these poems encounter the flickering, flowing matrices of being—"that far-forged interior / Outlandish green and flaming cause unknown"—and give voice to the elemental question of what can and cannot be known or understood—and what can sustain us.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Burnt Mountain
  8. Fernery
  9. Heath Obscure
  10. The Pink
  11. Deplorables
  12. The Wood
  13. The Rain
  14. The Boulder
  15. Attention
  16. Erratica
  17. Cirque
  18. Roundleaf
  19. Redoubt
  20. Loose Triad
  21. Up through the woods, forcing the stones
  22. Crows beset the settled hawk
  23. Ragged Robin
  24. Animus
  25. Happy Comical Crewelwork Panel
  26. Interrupted Fern
  27. Dead Color
  28. Potentilla
  29. Outside Art
  30. Yard Work
  31. Verbascum
  32. Let Beauty Be
  33. Hoop
  34. The Puck
  35. Convolvulus
  36. Sampler
  37. Plain & Fancy
  38. Esker
  39. Summer River
  40. Poplars
  41. The Grade
  42. Zoochorous
  43. Hourglass Pond
  44. Interim
  45. Notch
  46. Little Estival
  47. Grassy Loop
  48. Pastiche
  49. Twistedstalk
  50. Going Up
  51. Burnt Mountain
  52. Nine Block (Autumn)
  53. Now the sky foists into
  54. Which parts are they part of
  55. How to keep going, going on
  56. Nothing to be done.
  57. What’s live what’s dying
  58. Winding that road, shouldering
  59. “ I know I am saying too much
  60. Spikes and cleavers
  61. Acknowledgments
  62. Kuhl House Poets