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Product Identifiers
PublisherDos Madres Press
ISBN-101948017717
ISBN-139781948017718
eBay Product ID (ePID)10050396114
Product Key Features
Book TitleField Light
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2020
Number of Pages148 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry
AuthorOwen Lewis
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight6 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN2019-955236
SynopsisPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. Winner of a Distinguished Favorite Award in the 2020 New York City Big Book Awards. FIELD LIGHT, written as an extended, multi-sectioned poem that moves in and out of prose, is a personal and historical exploration of the Berkshires through poetry and prose. Physician-poet Owen Lewis becomes a figure in his own epic as he learns to see himself and the abounding history that lives in the towns of western Massachusetts. From the writers Hawthorne, Melville, nearby Stanley Kunitz, Chris Gilbert and others, to artists Daniel Chester French, his daughter Peggy Cresson and Norman Rockwell, from the young lawyer Theodor Sedgwick who undertook a trial in 1781 to free Elizabeth Mumbet ending slavery in Massachusetts, to civil rights champion W.E.B. Du Bois, to Arlo Guthrie, to physician Austen Riggs and his psychiatric hospital, to Gertrude Smith and the founding of Tanglewood, FIELD LIGHT investigates layered histories to create a compelling cultural, political and social narrative, with its cycles of privilege and racism, that continues to unfold. It is the story of finding one's voice amid many voices, and the importance of the community of voices.
LC Classification NumberPS3562.E957F54 2020
