[Hillman\'s] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful.
When you meet the one who loves you, it is extremely rare..
Their baffled voices melting our wax walls with a candle, the ones who understand what being is--the glowing, the broken, the wheels, the brave ones-- they have their courage, you have yours; when you meet the one you love, it is so rare.
Come back later.
The ones who love us, how do they break through our defenses? We\'re tired today.
In a half-unwieldy life you made, under the hyaline sky, while the dead drank from zigzag pools nearby, if they saved you in your wild incapacities, in timing of the world\'s harm in a little pettiness in your own heart while others took your madrigals in shreds to a tribunal, when others said you should feel grateful to be minimally adequate for the world\'s triple exposure or some tired committee...
During an enchantment in the life Do you love a living person absolutely? Tell them now.
Hillman proposes that poetry offers courage even in times of existential peril; her work represents what is most necessary and fresh in American poetry.
At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses narrative, documentary or scientific materials to record daily events during a time of pandemic, planetary crisis, political and racial turmoil. --Harvard Review Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023 An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. [Hillman\'s] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful
