The Collected Poems of Ann Fields

Choosing to include the perspective of the deer, the perspecive of the child, the perspective of the tribal harpooner thinking himself into the whale's body, choosing to believe that art stems from the pelvis rather than from a dissociated intellect--these choices determine the governing language of Ann's poems, a language grounded in simplicity and directness, in images of physical reality, a language in which the abstract can be ahieved only as a flowering of the immediate and particular.