The Nightfields
Penguin Poets
Penguin Poets
- By: Joanna Klink
- Narrated by: Joanna Klink
- Length: 1 hours 28 minutes
Description
A new collection from a poet who has made "a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent" (Louise Glück). Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with personal poems of loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with "Night Sky," thirty metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell's Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an open-air observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward a sense of infinitude and connection.
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Penguin Poets Series

The Nightfields
By: Joanna Klink
Narrated by: Joanna Klink
Length: 1 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A new collection from a poet who has made "a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent" (Louise Glück). Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with personal poems of loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are... Read more »
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Tertulia
By: Vincent Toro
Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
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Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
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Length: 1 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From "one of the most impressive voices in poetry today" (Dissent magazine), a new collection that shines a light on forgotten or obscured parts of the past in order to reconstruct a deeper, truer vision of the present
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Little Big Bully
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Length: 1 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In a new collection that is "a force of nature" (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and oppression.
Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal... Read more »

Somebody Else Sold the World
By: Adrian Matejka
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize
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Walkman
By: Michael Robbins
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A new collection from an audacious, humorous poet celebrated for his "sky-blue originality of utterance" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)
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