Swenson Poetry Award
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Lisa William's poems are infused with what John Hollander calls "a guarded wonder." A poet of unique vision, she seems always to be "looking at, " with special attention to the experience of the senses. Moreover, Williams is equally concerned with epistemology—the how of seeing. And it is perhaps this quality of attention that informs her interest in the formulations of poetry itself, in its constructed dimension. Her control of the line, of rhythmic possibilities, of structures both formal and free, is evident in every poem. Together, William's original voice and her poetic finesse allow her to create those harmonies of wonder evoked by the very instrument, the hammered dulcimer, that gives her collection its name. Judge for the 1998 May Swenson Poetry Award was John Hollander, poet, critic, professor. Long a major figure in American letters, Hollander was a personal friend to May Swenson, and has influenced the work of many of our best emerging poetic voices.

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Publisher
Utah State University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780874213195
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword by John Hollander
  3. The Direction of Shadow
  4. Sunday Morning
  5. Interruption of Flight
  6. Yellow Bird
  7. What the Wind Said to the Girl Who Was Afraid
  8. The Fall
  9. The Tenderness
  10. The Hammered Dulcimer
  11. Complaint
  12. Eve, After Eating
  13. Man Walking
  14. Black Horses
  15. The Growth
  16. Manners, 1977
  17. A Spider
  18. The Man by the River
  19. Banquet
  20. To Night
  21. On the Nature of Beauty
  22. Romantic Relief
  23. Negation
  24. Landscape
  25. A Wind in Place
  26. Crater
  27. On a Worm Descending a Thread
  28. A Story of Swans
  29. God Put the Noose Around My Neck
  30. The Grasshopper
  31. The End of Spring
  32. In the Abstract
  33. Ambivalence
  34. The Chant
  35. A Forward Spring
  36. Rattlesnake
  37. In the Valley
  38. After a Line of Plato
  39. Acknowledgments
  40. About the Author
  41. About the May Swenson Award