Firekeeper
Selected Poems
by Pattiann Rogers
New and Selected
Pattiann Rogers has built a reputation as one of America’s finest
contemporary poets. Her writing—with its firm roots in science and the
natural world—has been compared to Emerson and Whitman. She has
written about motherhood, art, science, spirituality, and the tension
between humanity and wildness. Firekeeper presents the best work from
Rogers’s thirty-year career in one powerfully compact book, including
such favorite poems as “Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird,” “The
Hummingbird: A Seduction,” “Animals and People: ‘The Human Heart in
Conflict with Itself,’” and “Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew.” This
new edition reflects the poet’s own selection from her work and has
been expanded to include poems from her five books published since Firekeeper was first released in 1994.
Pattiann Rogers
Author's Bio:Pattiann Rogers has published six books of poetry. She has been the
recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan
Poetry Fellowship. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri
(B.A.) and the University of Houston (M.A.) and has been a visiting
writer at the University of Texas, the University of Montana, and the
University of Arkansas and a member of the faculty of Vermont College.
The mother of two grown sons, Pattiann Rogers lives with her husband, a
geophysicist, in Colorado.
Awards:Publishers Weekly Best Books of 1994 —Poetry
Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, 1995 – 1995
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize —Finalist
Pattiann Rogers is the Recipient of the 2005 Lannan Literary Award for her Poetry Quotes:“While Rogers's vision is firmly rooted in nature, it would be
reductive to call her a nature poet; her poems are gestures of a spirit
that experiences the act of observation as religious, a ritual as vital
as eating or drawing breath.” —Leslie Ullman, Poetry
“If you don't read poetry, read Pattiann Rogers —and then you will....
I love these sparkling, burrowing poems. They know no border between
eroticism and death, sheer whimsy and utter gravity, the translucent
spirit and the naked body, the sky and the everloving soil.” —Robert Michael Pyle
“If angels were to agree upon a language to describe creation, a tone
of voice and a point of view that would adequately celebrate the
divine, these would be the poems they would write.... If this is not
poetry in service to humanity, I do not know what is.” —Barry Lopez
“Is it unkind to say that Pattiann Rogers knows as much about science
as any living poet? Call the assertion the highest praise. Is she our
most humane poet? I'll risk it. Has she created a complex natural
theology or our mortal days and nights, avisible mythology? Yes. Yes,
she has. This book is the work of a major poet.” —James Whitehead
These musical, lushly rhythmic lines show well the deep connection
between the erotic and the holy that Rogers explores in many of these
fine new poems.” --Susan Carlisle, Harvard Review
“Only once in a great while does a person come along who so excels at
her field of endeavor that through her sheer talent, she changes that
field forever.” --D.E.S., Elliot Bay Booknotes |
Price:
$ 16.00
Binding: Paper
Availability In Stock: 275
Immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2005
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Edition: Revised and Expanded
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781571314215
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