Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s <i>Shy Green Fields</i> is in company with books by poets who wrote about glorious ordinary days in extraordinary times. In a pillowbook of a hundred seven-line poems, this life, as it is written, has the shadow of Robert Creeley’s <i>A Day Book</i> behind it, and the shadow of Federico Lorca in his famous, reiterated line, “Green, I love you, green, …” a specific, and pacific, emotional response in difficult political times. Behm-Steinberg’s book is, likewise, carnal, primal, and intellectual. <i>Shy Green Fields</i> exults in experience, “Such versions!”
--Jane Miller
Details
- Publication Date
- Aug 24, 2007
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780615161334
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Specifications
- Pages
- 114
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)