Field of Vision

From National Poetry Series winner Stephanie Horvath, a haunting, dreamlike odyssey through the American countryside

In Field of Vision, we traverse the thresholds of past and future, reality and dream, as we accompany the speaker through deserts, forests, rivers, and coasts. She raises her newborn son in rural Vermont; in a California desert she thinks of thelife she left behind in the Midwest; she moves to an island in Maine to work at an old motel. These moments capture, viscerally and in...