Quickening Fields gathers fifty-three poems that focus on the wide variety of life forms present on earth and their unceasing zeal to exist, their constant "push against the beyond" and the human experience among these lives.
Pattiann Rogers has published fourteen books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes, in collaboration with Joellyn Duesberry. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. In 2018 she was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry. She lives in Colorado.
“With this harmonious and lyrical confluence of science, sex,
nature, and myth, poet and essayist Rogers fills a distinctive void
in modern writing. These poems fill a primordial urge of
verse: to express awe at the world. Lines ring with an
exuberant sense of wonderment . . . Rogers’s poems flourish as
essential experiences of wonder, as prayers.”
– Publishers Weekly
“Rogers’s language can be crisp and specific or languid and
luxurious. . . What readers will know throughout these poems is how
deeply [she] sees, how humanely she views the world above, below,
and the spaces that reside between her.”
--Library Journal
“Pattiann Rogers, one of our major American poets, gifts her
readers with new poems interwoven with a selection of poems
previously uncollected. What I have always found delicious and
paradoxical in Roger’s writing is the oceanic grace with which
she moves from the micro to the macro world. Whether reading about
the genesis of a woodland snail at twilight or the primitive peace
of the universe, one enters a cosmology as complex and sparkling as
the galaxies that hold our ordinary human lives.”
– Sandra Alcosser, author of Except by Nature
“No one better expresses the sensory world--its sublimity, and the
flood of the tactile that so stirs us—than Pattiann Rogers. She is
a virtuoso of exactitude, celebrating both the fabric of nature and
its spiritual evocations. Her open-eyed love of the physical,
indoors and out, is catching.”
– Marvin Bell
“When I was 25, I read a Pattiann Rogers poem. There was something
in the poem where she breaks the fourth wall, as it were, and
speaks directly to the reader. And that irreverence thrilled me
when she started speaking to me — like the hand reaching out of a
poem. That was the initial high. I saw that here was a space where
I could act out and explore creatively, and it was socially
acceptable. This is the feeling I’m always trying to get back
to.”
– Gregory Pardlo, author of Digest, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize
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