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Eyeshot

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Award

Heather McHugh's new book, Eyeshot, is a brooding, visionary work that takes aim at the big questions--those of love and death. The poems suggest that such immensities balance on the smallest details, and that a range of human blindness is inescapable.

The power of this new work comes from its delicate yet tenacious fidelity to the ever-unfolding senses of sense. The poems invite the reader to follow careening words and insights through passages both playful and profound. Her "Fido, Jolted by Jove" reveals the tension endemic to both language and living: "the world itself is worried." Yet the same poem remarks the high price of any reductive fix: "a brain this insecure may need another bolt be driven in it." This movement between anxiety and the human compulsion for order informs Eyeshot's darkly comic, 20/20 acuity.

Language: English

Pages: 54

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Release: October 01, 2003

ISBN: 0819566713

ISBN 13: 9780819566713

Eyeshot

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Award

Heather McHugh's new book, Eyeshot, is a brooding, visionary work that takes aim at the big questions--those of love and death. The poems suggest that such immensities balance on the smallest details, and that a range of human blindness is inescapable.

The power of this new work comes from its delicate yet tenacious fidelity to the ever-unfolding senses of sense. The poems invite the reader to follow careening words and insights through passages both playful and profound. Her "Fido, Jolted by Jove" reveals the tension endemic to both language and living: "the world itself is worried." Yet the same poem remarks the high price of any reductive fix: "a brain this insecure may need another bolt be driven in it." This movement between anxiety and the human compulsion for order informs Eyeshot's darkly comic, 20/20 acuity.

Language: English

Pages: 54

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Release: October 01, 2003

ISBN: 0819566713

ISBN 13: 9780819566713

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