Poem of the Week | October 16, 2012
Brenda Hillman: "The Goats"
This week we’ve dug up a TMR classic by Brenda Hillman. We published this poem back in ’88, issue 11.1. Hillman has described her work as “interested in the presence of spirit in matter and in how to have joy in a divided universe…My tools are irony, the image, the broken narrative, and an intensely personal voice.” We see all of those tools at work in this poem. Hillman has received numerous awards for her work including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, as well as a Pushcart Prize and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. Her collections include Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001) and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2003).
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