Attuned at once to the worlds of natural science and medicine, faith, and the fleeting, intimate moments of human relationships, Heidy Steidlmayer's Fowling Piece is a remarkably mature first collection of poems.
As they search for meaning in both the extraordinary and the everyday, these poems, in exquisitely compressed language, display a fierce attention to the history of individual words and a surprising wit. In Steidlmayer's poetic landscape, words strike the reader as at once familiar and exotic, becoming instruments through which she is able to access and make sense of the most profound, irreducible aspects of human experience. Her mastery of and experiments in form are exceptional for a poet of any age. Fowling Piece offers the rare gift of a new poet whose work is truly new.
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