Wolf Intervals: Poems
Ebook
The poems in Graham Hillard's debut collection are personal and world-historical, as remote as fifteenth-century Rome and as near as the American landscape. Here are poems of music, violence, faith, doubt, and the creaturely world, composed in the unignorable shadow of Holy Scripture. Here, too, are childhood and child-rearing, small sagas of fortune and failure across the generations. Like the dissonant chords for which the book is named, Hillard's poems seek resolution but find it only sparingly. A bold and surprising new collection, Wolf Intervals takes place at the heart of that quest.
“Wolf Intervals reveals an accomplished and interesting poet, impressive for the control and sinewy feel of his syntax and lineation. Poets often manage one or the other, but not the tandem that creates poetry’s truest structure, that certain architecture of language. Graham Hillard has a terrific facility for rhythmic shapes and versatile poetic forms. But maybe it is enough to say he writes smartly, with charm, with grace, with humor. I can’t help feeling this is an exceptional book, worthy of wide attention.”
—Dave Smith
“In these sharply crafted poems, Graham Hillard challenges the reader to examine how nature both blesses and infects the human soul. Fields and forests, orchards and cities, wolves and children: all are caught in the dance between humanity and the natural world. In Hillard’s poems, the elemental yearning to seek solace in memory is also of paramount importance. Thus, how well we can decode the messages of the past provides our best chance to walk into the future unburdened by fear.”
—Eleanor Lerman
- Title: Wolf Intervals: Poems
- Author: G. S. Hillard
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666724615, 9781666724608, 9781666731743, 1666724610, 1666724602, 1666731749
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666724615
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-19T10:57:56Z
Graham Hillard is managing editor of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal and instructor of creative writing at Trevecca Nazarene University. He is the founding editor of the Cumberland River Review; a regular contributor to the Washington Examiner, National Review, and other magazines; and the recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. He lives in Nashville with his wife, daughter, and son.