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. These poems capture, viscerally and intimately, a sense of deep time in the rural landscape-dark, damp dirt on one's hands, a desert over which vultures circle, the decay of wet leaves on a forest floor. A meditation on...