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Cheryl Pallant’s Field of Here reframes our sense of place and time. Through a deft play with familiar phrases, these poems ask, cajole, and at times demand that we reckon with what we take in each day—the injustices, the lies and omissions. But this book isn’t only a political and cultural critique. Pallant invites us to “turn the weight of the world into wind…. become what was only dreamed….” Field of Here is an essential book for this moment.
—Lea Graham
Who’s not these days wondering about the direction, if not the fate, of the human? In Field of Here, Cheryl Pallant takes up the question of who we are and where we are going, and she does this without pretension, without bright ideas, without hand-wringing or fanfare of any sort, simply with words, words that wind round one another, words that roll on in great swatches of almost prayer-like anaphora, words that seep out from the body and the earth and the network of meaning and feeling we all live in the middle of….Field of Here is visionary in its clear-eyed view of present tragedies and the brightness of a future that is actually already here. “Precarity and/ stability share beds. /There’s a chance of rain/ and aclearing.”
—Norman Fischer
“Avert eyes, avert ears” speak the early lines of Cheryl Pallant’s marvelous new poetry book. In a language of the body, these poems move from “ancestral cells” to continual transformation, teaching us how to catch our “lost footing” through our ancient yet ever-present grounded materiality. Field of Here is the present body that “won’t hold back,” an act of charged speech “aligning with stems and fountains of energy,” flowing in rhythms that resist static description. Lovely and lyrical, this book offers “selves”-portrait(s) of the radical materiality of the Earth, from which we humans all come and out of which we sing.
—Laura Hinton
Cheryl Pallant is a poet, writer, dancer, and meditation teacher working at the intersection of language, body, and consciousness. She is the author of seven poetry collections and several nonfiction books. A recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she teaches at the University of Richmond and is a Reiki and Healing Touch practitioner.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 102 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-541-0
$18
