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Flatlands, Ruth's first full-length poetry collection, explores how her perspective has been indelibly shaped by her state of birth, Nebraska. "Some writers approach the Nebraska plains as a big, empty other into which they may imagine. I understand the appeal of that mythology. But in Ruth Williams gorgeous new collection, Flatlands, the landscape is as alive as the plains truly are, and serves as both a generating place and quixotic companion to Williams' s subtle, precise speaker. Throughout the poems, Williams images are beautifully wrought and full of surprises: a salmon being filleted opens like " a girl' s coral dress come undone and the " night heat" of spent fireworks sleeps in the hands of children who are " ready to knock." I love this book-it' s musical syncopation, the tight, clean transparency of the poems' lines. I think Willa Cather, the collection' s genius loci, would admire Williams' s work, recognizing its fundamental truthfulness. Which is about the highest compliment I have to give."-Erin Belieu, Author of Slant Six, Co-founder, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
| ISBN-13 | 9781625579898 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1625579896 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 0.19 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $15.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 76 pages |
| Publisher | Black Lawrence Press |
| Published On | 2018-04-01 |
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