内容简介
On a tour in northern England, Galway Kinnell attended a
reading by Josephine Dickinson. She made such an impression on him
with her brilliant poems and unusual background that he has offered
a rare, special introduction to her U.S. debut book. At the age of
six a serious illness left Dickinson deaf overnight. She
nonetheless built a career as a musician, composer, and teacher,
while also writing poetry filled with sound and rhythm. The
forty-five poems in Silence Fell are set on a sheep farm in the
northern mountains. She moved there thirteen years ago and fell in
love with a local farmer, a man more than twice her age, who has
recently died. The poems tell a unique love story through a modern
shepherd's calendar. A New York Times Book Review Editors'
Choice.
作者简介
JOSEPHINE DICKINSON, author of "Scarberry
Hill" and "The Voice", was born in South London in 1957. She
studied classics at Oxford and taught music for many years. She has
lived in Alston, a small Cumbrian town high in the Pennines, for
more than a decade. The summer 2005 issue of the British literary
magazine Staple praised the best "Alt Generation" of British poets
(a response to the Guardian"s "Next Gen" contest), and Dickinson
was the first choice listed by both judges.Galway Kinnell is a
former MacArthur Fellow and has been state poet of Vermont. In 1982
his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book
Award. For many years he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of
Creative Writing at New York University. He is currently a
chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For thirty-five
years-from "What A Kingdom It Was" to "The Book of Nightmares" to
"Threee Books"--Galway Kinnell has been enriching American poetry,
not only by his poems but also by his teaching and his powerful
public readings