—kept losing self control,
but how could one lose the self
after reading so much literary theory? (More …)
Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry from Wesleyan University Press, most recently Practical Water (2009) and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013). Recently she collaborated with Garrett Caples and Paul Ebenkamp to edit Richard O. Moore's Particulars of Place. Hillman is the Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College of California.
As a Sentence Leaves Its Breath
by Brenda Hillman
—on a mountain top in summer
wood splitting on a finished tree, —
ridges of the swirls in a mirrorless day,
tall ants nearby—, twin sides of alive: so pattern recalls
how to cling volute, contingent, (More …)
For the Lovers Abandoned in Sunlight
by Brenda Hillman
Some friends had broken up-;
i didn’t think they should,
but still… (The bees had also
flown away to the chrome woods— (More …)