The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It - Softcover

Bashaw, Molly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915380897 ISBN 13: 9780915380893

Publisher: Word Works, 2014

Synopsis

The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It is a tour de force that returns us to our native roots, connected to the land, knowing the weft of our work, our food, our spinning nights of stars. Selected from 324 submissions to the annual Washington Prize competition, this manuscript climbed through the ranks, dazzling each reader in turn until it swept away the final judges. James Longenbach comments, "To say that Molly Bashaw has written a book inhabiting the most gritty details of farm life is like saying that Melville wrote the best-ever book about whaling: it's true, but the result of her inhabitation is not reportage but myth-making of the highest imaginative level. The poems feel simultaneously earth-bound and surreal, most convincingly worldly when their language is most exquisitely unhinged. Molly Bashaw is an artist of the American sublime: greet her at the beginning of a great career."

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About the Author

Molly Bashaw grew up on small farms in Massachusetts, upstate New York, and Vermont. She studied at the Eastman School of Music before working for twelve years in Germany as a professional bass- trombonist. In 2012-13 she served as the George Bennett Fellow writer-in- residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, and is currently attending graduate school in Germany. Her poetry has been awarded the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, a scholarship at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Pushcart nomination. THE WHOLE FIELD STILL MOVING INSIDE IT (The Word Works, 2014) is her first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Word Works
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915380897
• ISBN 13: 9780915380893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80