Girl With Bees in Her Hair

In The Girl with Bees in Her Hair, Eleanor Rand Wilner confirms her reputation as a discerning and distinctive voice in American poetry. She creates a mythology that recovers the authentic and the real, that sees a planet too small and a universe too immense to support humanity's old illusions of importance. From the "unfolding flower of fire" of the Big Bang that opens the book to the blue silence of ocean at its close, a subversive imagination, informed by history and science, plays its transforming light across the dark of outer space and the inmost chambers of the heart. In this "choral work of the imagination," Wilner's poems reach beyond the self to challenge popular assumptions, rigorously question beliefs, and unsettle memory itself. As the old gods dissolve back into elemental forces and passions, a contemporary vision emerges that looks back without nostalgia, views the present with mounting dread, and mixes elegy with protest against that which devalues life and sanctions violence and war. Book jacket.Wilner, Eleanor Rand is the author of 'Girl With Bees in Her Hair', published 2004 under ISBN 9781556592034 and ISBN 1556592035.