Poems

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Elizabeth Bradfield's poems occupy a few different areas of exploration. Below are a selection from her collections:

From Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008)

• Concerning the Proper Term for a Whale Exhaling
• Nonnative Invasive
• Butch Poem 4: Losing a Father
• Butch Poem 6: A Countertenor Sings Handel's Messiah
• No More Nature

From Ice-Blink (tentative title), forthcoming in 2009

• On the Longing of Early Explorers
• Mr. Wilson's Specimens
• Polar Explorer #10: Frank Hurley, Photographer on Shackleton's Endurance Expedition—1915
• Against Solitude

Uncollected

• Distance Education
• On the Magnetism of Certain Spots on Earth, Like Provincetown
• Right Whale: Death as Spectacle
• Getting Out

Poems Online

Poems by Elizabeth Bradfield have appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, and are forthcoming in The Gay and Lesbian Review and Ploughshares.

Below are links to a few publications in literary journals that are available online:

• Romanian translations of several poems: Octavian Blaga's "Zodii în cumpănă"
• "Now You See Me," Verse Daily, July 5, 2007
• "Industry," Poetry Daily, April 6, 2007
• "Snow Goggles: Whalebone and Sinew," Blackbird, Fall 2006
• "Polar Explorer #2: Salomon August Andree—1897," Blackbird, Fall 2006
• "Cul-de-sac Linguistics," Prairie Schooner Summer 2006
• "The Shepherd of Tourists on a $20 Sunset Cruise Speaks," Poetry Northwest, Winter 2006
• "WYSSA," The Atlantic Monthly, May, 2005