Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
76
Language
English
Published
Apr 10, 2006
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520240413
ISBN-13
9780520240414
Description
In his third book of poems, Mark Levine continues his exploration of the rhythms and forms of memory. The Wilds is set in the border regions between natural and cultivated states, childhood and adulthood, past and present. "We were boys," says the speaker of the opening poem, "boyish, almost girls./Left alone on the roof, we would have dwindled." Austere and lyrical, the music of these poems resonates with echoes of poetic tradition-Wyatt, Jonson, Milton, Eliot-yet is singularly modern.
Genres
Poetry