Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781931968379)

In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe in, Capps still mistrusts authority, feeling disenchanted with God, family, eros, even her own impulsive self. And yet while the absence of faith hints at despair, these poems often achieve, almost inspite of themselves, an odd buoyancy. Playful, fearless, wary, there's a dazzling resilience in this book. One poem can make a grand and eccentric claim, I forgive the afterlife, while another takes as its title something humbler and more poisonous, God Bless Our Crop-Dusted Wedding Cake. No matter how adrift this poet may feel, poetry itself remains her anchor and lifeline.

Author: Ashley Capps
ISBN-10: 1931968373
ISBN-13: 9781931968379
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2006
Pages: 69
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.20d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 01/01/2007 pg. 52
Commonweal 06/15/2007 pg. 34
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended