An intricately woven collection of poetry explores human frailty and the quest for immortality through memory and creative endeavors that ultimately leads to the emergence of salvation, broken minds and spirits, and the searching soul. Simultaneous.

The Seconds

Literature & Fiction

Bierds, Linda

Poetry

Putnam Adult

An intricately woven collection of poetry explores human frailty and the quest for immortality through memory and creative endeavors that ultimately leads to the emergence of salvation, broken minds and spirits, and the searching soul. Simultaneous.

The award-winning author of The Seconds presents a collection of thirty interlinked poems that discuss such topics as the material world, the role of faith, and the scientific process.

First Hand

A Marian Wood Book/Putnam

From this critically acclaimed and award-winning poet, a stunning volume of new and selected works that display her signature intelligence, depth, and vigorous originality. Hailed as ?visionary? by The New Yorker and ?radiant? by The New York Times Book Review, Linda Bierds returns with a collection that gives us the best of her astonishing work, and then gives us more: the gift of fifteen new poems. As a poet, she has always shied away from the easy indulgences of confessional poetry, turning her attention instead to the things that unite us in our common humanity? art, science, music, history?and bringing alive people (some famous, some little-known) who have made contributions to these spheres. The new poems are no less vital, transporting the reader from medieval to modern-day Venice to the moon; from anatomical sketches to primitive mapping and early naturalism? returning always to the empathy that guides her work. These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds?s singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, ?The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.?

Flight: New and Selected Poems

“Her poems, with their constantly surprising delicacy and their language rich with insight and a sensuous music, radiate real power and authority and animal presence.” —W. S. Merwin (U.S. Poet Laureate, 2010–2011) He is best known for his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, but among filmmakers Roget is better known for his explanation of the optical illusion that still bedevils them: Why does a wheel moving forward always seem on film to be running backward? For Linda Bierds, the illusion also refers to our relationship to language, to our belief that words hold something more than their definitions. Why do we strive to articulate the world even as we know this is a shifting and illusory pursuit? Why do we continue to seek perfection, pursue beauty, yearn for immortality? Roget’s Illusion offers no answer. It simply shows the striving.

Roget's Illusion

Literary

Marian Wood Books/Putnam

Poems deal with death, myth, horses, exploration, fires, prehistoric victims, children, and nature

The Stillness, the Dancing: Poems

Henry Holt Co.

Heart and Perimeter

A collection of twenty-six poems woven around the theme of longing

A work of powerful clarity and deceptive simplicity, The Ghost Trio carries Bierds to new levels of accomplishment. It is a book that demands to be read and read again, each new reading adding greater depth and dimension. Taken individually, each of these poems is extraordinary; taken together, their cumulative force astounds. Linda Bierds's true subject, here as in all her work, is imagination and immortality: the striving to know and to make, the yearning to leave an imprint on the mind and in the memory, in the soul and in the soil. And indeed, soil - which both gives and receives life - becomes here a metaphor for the creative force as it links each poem to the others. Structurally, The Ghost Trio winds forward in time through its three sections, then doubles back to recover the journey and experience it once again. Phrases and images planted early recur, striking chords of memory, while figures from history mingle with the seemingly autobiographical "I" and, like the poems, call to each other in an echoing song that is itself a ghost image. And in truth this is a work that reverberates with ghosts. But they are the ghosts of our shared consciousness, not those of our childhood terrors. They sing to us of our civilization: our common history, our dreams and demiurges.

The Ghost Trio

An anthology of poetry by the author of Heart and Perimeter and The Stillness, the Dancing journeys through time to capture the ghosts of humankind's shared consciousness as revealed through the mirrors of imagination and immortality. Reprint.

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The Seconds

The Seconds

First Hand

Flight: New and Selected Poems

Roget's Illusion

The Stillness, the Dancing: Poems

Heart and Perimeter

Heart and Perimeter

The Ghost Trio

The Ghost Trio