Peripheral Vision
Description
Peripheral Vision, Susan Kinsolving's fourth book of poems, explores the world from many points of view. She takes her readers to England, Hollywood, Wyoming, France, and Chile. She goes behind the scenes in a military hospital, an elementary school, and a disturbed family. Her poems were described in the New Yorker as "grand and almost terrifying." In this new collection, she proves herself again. As a guest poet and lecturer, Kinsolving has performed at numerous venues, including Harvard, Columbia, and Yale University, as well as Bad Robot in Santa Monica and Bread Loaf in Vermont.
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Susan Kinsolving was born in Illinois, raised in New England, and educated in California. She has taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars, Southampton College, Willard-Cybulski Men's Prison, University of Connecticut, California Institute of the Arts, and Keystone Academy in Beijing, China. She has received poetry fellowships from France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Switzerland, New York, Illinois, and Wyoming. As a librettist, she has heard her works performed in New York, California, Italy, and the Netherlands. She is Poet-in-Residence at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Truth Be Known
- On Spindrift Drive One Night
- Millions
- After Frost
- A Distance
- To Her in Hollywood
- Coming Toward Me
- Page Count
- Remodeling
- "Fill the Cavity with Crumbs"
- "Never Write About Me Again"
- Commingling
- The Wintry One
- Nymphaea
- Reflections on Narcissus
- Peripherals
- Her Manifest Metaphors
- Mathematical Dreams
- The Fashion of La Folie
- Night Sight
- Twelve Shelves
- Periapt and Hu-Kwa
- A Lasting Legacy in Warsaw
- Conspirators
- Parliament Passes the Inclosing Lands Act, 1809
- From the Windows of the Kew Lunatic Asylum
- Unnumbered
- The End in Sight
- Black Hills by Day
- History of A Metaphor
- Glass Eyes
- The Ocularist Said
- The Effect on Elizabeth
- Picture This
- How It Happens
- Thermal Dynamics
- Helen Keller in the News
- Ambroise Paré, 1579
- Prosthetic Anecdotes
- The Case of the Carrot
- Evil Eyes
- Frankie Minh
- Second Grade, Seaview Elementary School
- On Isla Negra
- Pvt. William O. Walker Recalls
- L'Oeil de Verre
- L'Oeil-ballon
