Rooms and Their Airs
Poems
by Jody Gladding
Questions
of use and usefulness find varied expression through the personas of
Gladding’s much anticipated second full volume of poetry. Drawn from her environments of northern Vermont and southern France, the work in Gladding’s Rooms and Their Airs explores the interface of the “human” and the “natural” worlds, and with each poem, further erodes that distinction. These
crystalline lyrics sparkle with humor, sophisticated word play, and
intellectual examination, reflecting an elegant and contagious
curiosity about the world, history, and language. A
literary heir to A. R. Ammons, Gustaf Sobin, and Lorine Neidecker,
Gladding celebrates the intersections of language and thought, mind and
nature.
Read an excerpt from Rooms and Their Airs
Listen to an author interview with Jody Gladding featuring select poems from Rooms and Their Airs:
Author's Bio:Poet and translator, Jody Gladding won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Stone Crop, published in 1993. Her poems have appeared widely in ecopoetics, Orion, Ploughshares, Poetry, Wilderness Magazine, and elsewhere. Her recent translations include The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono and Small Lives by
Pierre Michon (Archipelago, 2004 and 2008). She has been the recipient
of a Whiting Writers Award and a Centre National du Livre de France
Translation Grant. She lives in Vermont.
Quotes:“In cadences uncannily imbued with the exaltations, strivings, and hesitancies of human thought, Jody Gladding limns interior and exterior worlds like no other. Words atomize on the page; pacing itself becomes a radical and spiritual force, elemental as the trees, stones, landscapes, skies, which infuse these meticulously exploratory and wondrous poems. Gladding paints with great grace ‘the broken / surface where business / must go on’ and the inexplicable universe that contains it, the textures and intricacies of the human mind that strives to grasp while knowing it can only partly understand.”
—Laurie Sheck, author of Captivity and The Willow Grove
“Jody Gladding’s poems are original, beautiful, and fierce, sometimes enigmatic, but never gratuitously, only faithfully so. They bring to their world (our world) a unique mix of light, lightness, and depth: a world in which human feeling is not all the author’s concern—but more rare, like the human face in Bernifal.”
—Jean Valentine, author of Door in the Mountain and Little Boat
“Jody Gladding combines deft cadences with an elemental, earthy vision.”
—John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home
"Gladding writes with astounding freshness about essential daily acts
that millions perform. That freshness derives in part from the
wholeness of her vision (and, one imagines, her life), in which
mothering and birthing, for example, are indissoluble from writing. Rooms and Their Airs is a nourishing work."
—Poets' Quarterly
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Price:
$ 16.00
Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 205
Available Immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2009
Size: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2
Edition: 1st
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9781571314321
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