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A new collection from poet Lisa Hiton.Arriving to the pastoral happens repeatedly and full of worry in THE CLEARING. For the pastoral stands for the fields of the Holocaust, of the imagination, of the Midwest, of the body, and even the empty field of the blank page. In the absence of knowing how to properly bury our inheritances of the 20th century, Hiton turns to fictive spectacle--to narrative invention, sensory desires, and malleable landsc...

Arriving to the pastoral happens repeatedly and full of worry in THE CLEARING. For the pastoral stands for the fields of the Holocaust, of the imagination, of the Midwest, of the body, and even the empty field of the blank page. In the absence of knowing how to properly bury our inheritances of the 20th century, Hiton turns to fictive spectacle-to narrative invention, sensory desires, and malleable landscapes-as a last gesture toward hope. As ...

...begins by considering philosophical questions arising from the experience of desire and intimacy: What does love reveal about-and make possible within-the individual? Can we ever truyly understand another person's experience of the world around them? To what extent is the other ultimately inaccessible, a world unto herself?"--