The Nightfields
  • Published: 7 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780143135395
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Nightfields

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A new collection from a poet whose books "are an amazing experience: harrowing, ravishing, essential, unstoppable" (Louise Glück)

A WASHINGTON POST BEST POETRY COLLECTION OF 2020

A new collection from a poet whose books "are an amazing experience: harrowing, ravishing, essential, unstoppable" (Louise Glück)

Joanna Klink's fifth book begins with poems of personal loss--a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from bewilderment at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with thirty-one metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell's Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward the possibility of infinitude and connection.
  • Published: 7 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780143135395
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $39.99
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Praise for The Nightfields

Praise for the work of Joanna Klink:

"Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy is a paradoxical wonder: its lean exterior cloaks an expansive interior; its rich solemnity is couched in syntactical and imagistic intensity; its perceptiveness is simultaneously elemental and sublime." --Terrance Hayes

"Klink navigates between those most suspicious extremes, despair and ecstasy, without ever seeming to be a poet dependent on extremes. The extraordinary beauty of her poems, from the beginning, has resulted from a constantly refined attention to the ordinary and the daily. Taken together, her books are an amazing experience - harrowing, ravishing, essential, unstoppable." --Louise Glück

"A passionate but controlled lyric meditation on time, intimacy, memory, and the increasingly imperiled natural world . . . American poetry sorely needs poets willing to address such large topics in a mode like this." --Publishers Weekly