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Once Removed: Poems by Elizabeth Bradfield
Known for her poetic portrayals of polar expeditions throughout theages, Elizabeth Bradfield explores environments remote and local, ecologicaland interior, in these enthralling new poems. Whether afloat on the Amazon orwandering her home turf of Cape Cod, Bradfield connects her natural surroundingswith the most essential of human longings.
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First published September 3, 2015
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About the author
Elizabeth Bradfield
13 books64 followersElizabeth Bradfield is the author of Toward Antarctica (Boreal Books/Red Hen, 2019) Once Removed (Persea, 2015), Approaching Ice (Persea, 2008), and Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008). She is also co-editor of two anthologies: Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry (Mountaineers Books, 2023) and Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005 - 2020 (Provincetown Arts Press, 2022).
Liz is editor of Broadsided (http://www.broadsidedpress.org), a modern incarnation of the traditional broadside. Her poetry been published in such journals as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Sun, and elsewhere.
Bradfield grew up in Tacoma, Washington, has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, the Audre Lorde Prize. She lives on Cape Cod, works as a naturalist, and teaches at Brandeis University.
Liz is editor of Broadsided (http://www.broadsidedpress.org), a modern incarnation of the traditional broadside. Her poetry been published in such journals as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Sun, and elsewhere.
Bradfield grew up in Tacoma, Washington, has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, the Audre Lorde Prize. She lives on Cape Cod, works as a naturalist, and teaches at Brandeis University.
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August 13, 2015
Bradfield's poems are very accessible to the mind, but their real work is in the heart.
"We are, by vast percentage, sea.
The eye can stand to be open only through tears."
Reading this book I felt like I was in the presence of an old soul. She has a finely developed ability to connect concepts in natural science with thoughts of human love and loss...and lust...dealt with in beautiful language, and often a wry humor. The poems are written in a number of forms, each seeming perfect to the topic, and the variety enhances the book. I highly recommend this read.
"We are, by vast percentage, sea.
The eye can stand to be open only through tears."
Reading this book I felt like I was in the presence of an old soul. She has a finely developed ability to connect concepts in natural science with thoughts of human love and loss...and lust...dealt with in beautiful language, and often a wry humor. The poems are written in a number of forms, each seeming perfect to the topic, and the variety enhances the book. I highly recommend this read.
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February 17, 2016"South Pacific maps were baskets of wind and wave, vector and junction."
"It is harder and harder to leave the stiff forest of I, I, I a life cultivates. The trunks of self thicken, saplings rise, ready to replace whatever falls."
"Something about how it holds and is bodiless."
"No one will make me new for you, no one will distract us."
"It is harder and harder to leave the stiff forest of I, I, I a life cultivates. The trunks of self thicken, saplings rise, ready to replace whatever falls."
"Something about how it holds and is bodiless."
"No one will make me new for you, no one will distract us."
October 21, 2022
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July 24, 2024
I love Elizabeth Bradfield’s poetry generally, but this book is my favorite.
January 18, 2017
Elizabeth Bradfield is really cool, she is a naturalist and a poet, and her books offer a wonderful glimpse into her world. The poetry, naturalistic observation, and commentary are beautifully braided. At the fault lines of humanity and nature these poems capture mankind's innovations and futility represented by marvelous integration and beautiful wreckage. My favorite poems were On the Habits of Swallows, An Apology of Sorts, Cultural Exchange, and Considering Interference. I really appreciated the index, it really put into perspective how enriched the poems were by naturalistic observation.
January 8, 2021
A very insightful book of poetry
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