Field Music, Alexandria Hall
Field Music, Alexandria Hall
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Field Music
Poems

Author: Alexandria Hall

Narrator: Alexandria Hall

Unabridged: 1 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/06/2020

Synopsis

A collection of poetry from the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren In her remarkable and assured debut, Alexandria Hall explores the boundaries and limits of language, place, and the self, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger, intimacy and isolation, playfulness and seriousness, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont, illuminating the beauty and difficulty inherent in the dichotomies of human language and experience.Incisive and tender, Field Music is a thoughtful and alert collection from a major emerging voice.

About Alexandria Hall

Alexandria Hall is a poet and musician from Vermont. She received her MFA from New York University and is now a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She is founder and editor-in-chief of tele- magazine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, BOAAT, The Bennington Review, Foundry, Memorious, and elsewhere.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph

I receive a digital galley of Field Music in exchange for a fair review. In her first book of poetry, the 2019 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Rosanna Warren, there is evidence of a very skilled poet, but who has yet come into a consistent voice. Her best poems are written in a str......more

Goodreads review by Catherine

The most beautiful book. I can't recommend it more highly. Lyric, sensual, incisive, and so moving. Also kinda like farm sexy.......more

Goodreads review by Spencer

What a gorgeous, lush collection. Each poem moves like a breeze and there were so many lines that made me pause and stare out the window. Hall's debut is at once aching and sexy, grieving and quiet. I love the way Hall builds her landscapes, how quick flashes of image, like a robin's egg, act as sta......more

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