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Practical Water
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009)
Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009)
Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman’s previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditation and an ecopoetics; this time her subject is water: Taoist water, baptismal water, water from the muses’ fountains, the practical waters of hydrology from which we draw our being—and the stilled water in a glass in a…
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