Windthrow

Windthrow

Publication Date

2017

Description

Windthrow: a forestry term for the uprooting or breaking of trees by wind. The voices of K. A. Hays’ third volume of poetry speak out of nature’s violent transformations. At turns self-effacing and empathic, fearful and accepting, these are poems of heat: the heat of new motherhood, of uncertainty, and of grief. Here, the things of a teeming world―” the truck stacked with cut trees,” “the military jet, droning over,” and “the beachgrass, blown / with dusty miller sprout”―are bound for renewal and ruin. In poems spare and strange, Hays looks outward to lay bare the complexities of our emotional lives. -- publisher

ISBN

9780887486197

Keywords

Poetry, Windthrow, Trees, Nature, Emotions

Disciplines

Poetry

Publisher

Carnegie Mellon University Press

City

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Department

English

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