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Morri Creech: Field Knowledge.(Book review)
Morri Creech Field Knowledge. Waywiser Press, 73 pages, $15.95
Winner of the first annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, judged by Hecht's literary executor, J. D. McClatchy, Morri Creech's Field Knowledge has set the bar high for future aspirants. Creech's cadence and content recall the forms Hecht used to describe an unraveling world. In a book centered on the pastoral, Creech weaves form into the delicate description of raw, Southern landscapes. He relishes the textured fields of his childhood and the layered histories that the land evokes.
Creech spends much of the book unearthing these stories--many of them memories of his grandfather--but, over time, they seem to take a backseat to the process of recovery itself. In the title poem, "Field Knowledge" Creech lifts, layer by layer, time's influence on the summer soil: "as if you could prize from weeds and loam one immaculate/ hour, one orient pearl buried at the damp root, and lift it clear/of the years of corn stalks, furrows, hay rakes freckled with scat--." The fourth, and ...
- NEW'S NOTES.(awards)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Poetry September 1, 2001 700+ words
...standard edition, are: In the Evening of No Warning by Kevin Clark (New Issues Poetry & Prose); Paper Cathedrals by Morri Creech (The Kent State University Press); On Taking the Body Off the Cross by Katie Ford (Graywolf Press); World's Tallest...
- The music of farewell.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Creech, Morri November 1, 2000 700+ words
...oblivion and paradise, It enters the world as loss, though in such ways That the cadences of grief resound as praise. Morri Creech's first book, Paper Cathedrals, won the Wick Poetry Prize and will be published next year by Kent State University Press...
- Night, Old Testament, Nixon, and heaven.(BOOKS)(POETRY)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 16, 2002 700+ words
...days when we pretend / that consequences will miscarry - / . . . until at last the winter breaks." In a manner similar to Morri Creech, also discussed below, Mr. Bottum peppers his collection with poems of historical consciousness; some of these reveal...
- The Resurrection of the Body.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review Creech, Morri January 1, 2003 700+ words
...the flayed resurrections of another age Long after the mind has gleaned from their hived bodies The honey of knowledge. MORRI CREECH is the author of the poetry collection Paper Cathedrals (Kent State University, 2001). He has new poems forthcoming in...
- The Gardener.(poem)
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review CREECH, MORRI March 22, 1999 700+ words
...turned to him then, in recognition-- and saw, beneath his robe, the raw furrow of the wound, where faith is planted. MORRI CREECH was the recipient of a 1997 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Missouri Review, and Sewanee Review...
- Books received.(Bibliography)(Poem)
- Magazine article from: Poetry December 1, 2001 700+ words
...Slicing the Moon: A Guided Poetic Excursion, by Royal L. Craig. Xlibris Corporation. $20.99. Paper Cathedrals, by Morri Creech. Kent State University Press. $12.00. Ordinary Life, by Barbara Crooker. ByLine Press. $8.00. The Mean Days...
- Chesapeake Revelation, 1786.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review CREECH, MORRI January 1, 2000 700+ words
...Releases us: for we are held by the Lord Who judges us but will not show His face, Sealed in the whited sepulcher of grace. MORRI CREECH was the recipient of a 1997 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Missouri Review, and Sewanee Review...
- A Parable of the Body.(poem)
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review CREECH, MORRI March 22, 1999 700+ words
...rebukes his mother, then turns from her, in that profound detachment that remains always at odds with the difficult heart. MORRI CREECH was the recipient of a 1997 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Missouri Review, and Sewanee Review...
Source: HighBeam Research, Morri Creech: Field Knowledge.(Book review)