Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman
Reading Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015
- Welcome
- Introduction
- Opening Remarks and "As the Roots Prepare for Literature"
- "To Spirits of Fire After Harvest"
- "Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood"
- "Grammar of This Life at Noon"
- "Black Series"
- "In High Desert Under the Drones"
- "Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors (An Essay On Choosing a New Camera)"
- "The Forests of Grief and Color"
- "On a Day, in the World"
- "From Metaphor and Simile: Day 2"
- "From Metaphor and Simile: Day 3"
- "From Metaphor and Simile: Day 4"
- "From Metaphor and Simile: Day 5 and Day 23"
- "Till It Finishes What It Does"
- "To a Desert Poet"
Welcome-25231
by Tyler Meier
Introduction-25233
by Susan Briante
Opening Remarks and "As the Roots Prepare for Literature"-25235
Hillman, Brenda. Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
"To Spirits of Fire After Harvest"-25237
Hillman, Brenda. Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
"Some Kinds of Reading in Childhood"-25239
Hillman, Brenda. Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
"Grammar of This Life at Noon"-25241
Hillman, Brenda. Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
"Black Series"-25243
Hillman, Brenda. Bright Existence. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1993.
"In High Desert Under the Drones"-25245
Hillman, Brenda. Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
"Experiments with Poetry Are Taken Outdoors (An Essay On Choosing a New Camera)"-25247
Hillman, Brenda. Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
"The Forests of Grief and Color"-25249
This poem has an extended epigraph from an essay by Judith Butler. Uncollected.
"On a Day, in the World"-25251
Hillman, Brenda. "On a Day, in the World." Kenyon Review 37.5 (2015): 40. Print.
"From Metaphor and Simile: Day 2"-25253
Uncollected.
"From Metaphor and Simile: Day 3"-25255
Hillman, Brenda. "From Metaphor and Simile: Day 3." Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion 8 (2015): n. pag. Web. 16 November 2015.
"From Metaphor and Simile: Day 4"-25257
Uncollected.
"From Metaphor and Simile: Day 5 and Day 23"-25259
"From Metaphor and Simile: Day 5" is uncollected. "From Metaphor and Simile: Day 23" differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Hillman, Brenda. "From Metaphor and Simile: Day 23." Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion 8 (2015): n. pag. Web. 16 November 2015.
"Till It Finishes What It Does"-25261
Dedicated to the poet's father, Jimmye Hillman.
Annotation:
Hillman, Brenda. Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
"To a Desert Poet"-25263
This poem was written for the dedication of the Poetry Center building in 2007.
Annotation:
Hillman, Brenda. Practical Water. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009.
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Brenda Hillman reads from her books Bright Existence (1993), Practical Water (2009), and Seasonal Works With Letters On Fire (2013), along with uncollected and new poems.
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