{"product_id":"the-devotion-field-9781882295463","title":"The Devotion Field","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe experimental and L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E influence is clear, yet \u003ci\u003eThe Devotion Field\u003c\/i\u003e offers, in a number of urban elegies, more narrative and personal (though still political) detail than has been Keelan's habit. Full of cultural and social critique, the poems concern themselves with the artifice of language, the art of being and the art of art, the fragmentation and continuous flux of contemporary life. She employs trademark techniques: stream-of--consciousness, free association and associative leaps, in addition to a new emphasis on melody and musical phrasing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntique\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe brought the teapot because it was broken\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;amp broken still valuable, \u003cbr\u003eA thing not available to her otherwise.\u003cbr\u003eOn its restored surface a pastoral\u003cbr\u003eFlickered once. Too late.\u003cbr\u003eShe was not honest but she was a poet\u003cbr\u003eMending the broken valuable . . .\u003cbr\u003e\"What absolute nonsense!\" cried the Earthworm.\"Nothing\u003cbr\u003eIs ever all right in the end and well you know it.\"\u003cbr\u003ePoor Earthworm, Ladybug whispered, \u003cbr\u003eLoving all that is disaster\u003cbr\u003eBellydown breathing with it everafter.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Claudia Keelan's \u003ci\u003eThe Devotion Field\u003c\/i\u003e fully confirms the promise of her earlier books, especially the recent \u003ci\u003eUtopic\u003c\/i\u003e. The quotidian world of what seems to be things, 'dog food and soil, ' 'dust and bits of paper, ' flows naturally and luminously into the world of ideas, which becomes even more palpable. 'Into the possibilities of the next page, \/ Or more nearly, another day.' The transit, returning us to where we always are, is breathtaking.\"--John Ashbery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaudia Keelan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three previous prize--winning collections of poetry. She teaches in the MFA and Ph.D. programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eInterim\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781882295463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.50w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/22\/2004 pg. 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2004 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/25\/2004\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Claudia Keelan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51616352862389,"sku":"9781882295463","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_968a77aa-bdae-421c-9f65-2598cbc2ecfa.jpg?v=1756189105","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-devotion-field-9781882295463","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}