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Autumn Sojourn, A Collection of Poems by Brenda Hillman, Limited Edition
- Item Number
- 266
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Sold
- 100 USD to Robinharlan
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Set at a time when the boundaries of things become numinous, Autumn sojourn is Brenda Hillman's wedding gift to her husband, poet Robert Hass. This cycle of twenty-four linked love poems (and three brief “interruptions”) explore the territories of sexuality, space and time in the languages of interior and exterior, at the border between; love comes in from the side. Each poem, a separate twelve-line structure, invents a different form; all are linked by the notion of the erased and eraseable Self, realized by an Other, yet never confident or certain as it rushes toward the mystery of being loved in the body: come in where I’m most alone.
The text is printed on Hahnemuhle Ingres rose paper with olive and terracotta inks and the endpapers are embedded with Japanese maple leaves. It is sewn into handmade St. Armand olive covers with a terracotta band. This Limited Edition was printed in 1994 by Em Press in Mill Valley, CA, and is 1 of only 3 copies.
Brenda Hillman’s work has been called eclectic, mercurial, sensuous, and luminescent. In an interview in Rain Taxi, Hillman said "It is impossible to put boundaries on your words, even if you make a poem. Each word is a maze. So you are full of desire to make a memorable thing and have the form be very dictated by some way that it has to be. But the poem itself is going to undo that intention. It's almost like you're knitting a sweater and something is unraveling it on the other end."
Hillman is the 2012 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Her other honors include awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America, along with a Bay Area Book Reviewer's Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award.
Hillman has taught at the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference and the University of California, Berkeley and currently holds the Olivia Filippi Chair in Poetry at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.
Courtesy of Brenda Hillman
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