Description
Poetry. "NIGHT LIGHTS is a volume of exquisitely painterly skyscapes, waterscapes, city and mountainscapes.set onto the page in language rich and precise. At the same time: the mind, meditative, scrupulous, thinking..As Augustine's poems approach a world at war, she asks, 'Is awareness madness?' I think not, but I find myself rather madly in love with this poet's eye, her music, her awareness" --Alice Ostriker. "Elegiac, lyrical, and passionately connected to the flow and ebb of the phenomenal world, NIGHTLIGHTS uplifts our poetry gaze. 'Now just this: the earth not in the sun's way/ A perfect ivory mirror reflects the eye/opening/'...Jane Augustine's investigative eye is to be trusted and applauded"--Anne Waldman.
Author Bio
Jane Augustine is a poet, critic, short story writer, visual/sound poetry performance artist and scholar of women in modernity. She has written five books of poetry: HIGH DESERT (Dos Madres Press, 2019), KRAZY (Marsh Hawk Press, 2015), A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO MOUNTAIN CLIMBING (Marsh Hawk Press, 2008), NIGHT LIGHTS (Marsh Hawk Press, 2004), and ARBOR VITAE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003). She is the editor of The Mystery by H.D. (University Press of Florida, 2009) and The Gift: The Complete Text by H.D. (University Press of Florida, 1998), as well as numerous essays on H.D., Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker and contemporary women poets. She has twice been awarded fellowships in poetry from the New York State Council on the Arts and has held the H.D. Fellowship at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She has taught at Pratt Institute, New York University, The New School, and Naropa University. She lives in Manhattan and Westcliffe, Colorado.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA