{"product_id":"before-our-eyes-new-and-selected-poems-1975-2017-paperback","title":"Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEleanor Wilner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major new collection from the winner of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore Our Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e gathers more than thirty new poems by Eleanor Wilner, along with representative selections from her seven previous books, to present a major overview of her distinguished body of work. A poet who engages with history in lyrical language, Wilner creates worlds that reflect on and illuminate the actual one, drawing on the power of communal myth and memory to transform them into agents of change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these poems, well-known figures step out of old texts to alter their stories and new figures arise out of the local air--a girl with a fury of bees in her hair, homesick statues that step down from their pedestals, a bat cave whose altar bears a judgment on our worship of war, and a frog whose spring wakening invites our own. In the process, ancient myths are naturalized while nature is newly mythologized in the service of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore Our Eyes \u003c\/i\u003efeatures widely anthologized works such as \"Sarah's Choice\" and \"Reading the Bible Backwards.\" In the new poems, Wilner records the bewildering public shocks of the current moment, when civic life is under threat, when language itself is attacked, and when poetry's lens of collective imagination becomes a way to resist falsity, to seek meaning, and to really see what is before our eyes.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEleanor Wilner\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eTourist in Hell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Girl with Bees in Her Hair\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2019, she received the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, the highest award presented by the Poetry Society of America. Her other awards include the Juniper Prize, three Pushcart Prizes, and a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, and her work appears in many anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and lives in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756991676704,"sku":"9780691193335","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cc96a4c99e9ca8ecd98f4a66b7fba8c1.webp?v=1780091058","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/before-our-eyes-new-and-selected-poems-1975-2017-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}