Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. THIS ONE TREE is the winner of the 2005 New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by William Olsen. "No one is going to not-know what these poems intend, what they state, and why they exist. They have the rigor of Oppen and a serious eye-level attention to pieces and parts of the chosen subject that give them an analogical edge over pure description. They bring heart and soul back to the poet writing them"--Fanny Howe.
Synopsis
"By looking at the world on behalf of the world, This One Tree] offers its poetry up as a self-portrait of the world. And with what new powers of description, powers that balance all the warring senses of this currently discredited activity of poetry by committing to the genius of place, of the scribe, and of 'scribble, ' or language itself. And with what visual command sponsored by what insistent powers of hearing, the senses at their beginning again as they, too, always were and always will be."
--William Olsen, from the foreword
About the Author
Katie Peterson was born in Menlo Park, California, in 1974, the middle child of a gregarious Irish-American woman and a dry-witted half-Swede. She attended Stanford University and did graduate work in the department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, completing a dissertation on Emily Dickinson and selflessness. She has published poems and prose in several journals and was a 2009-2010 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. A Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University, she is the author of This One Tree (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2006), The Accounts (University Of Chicago Press, 2013) and PERMISSION (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2013).