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 Approaching Ice, forthcoming in 2009

• On the Longing of Early Explorers
• Wilson's Specimens
• Frank Hurley, Photographer on Shackleton's Endurance Expedition—1915
• Against Solitude

Poems Online

Poems by Elizabeth Bradfield have appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, Orion, The Believer, The Virginia Quarterly Review.

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

• "Polar Explorer Adrien de Gerlache, First to Winter Below the Antarctic Circle (1898)", Virgina Quarterly Reivew, Spring 2009
• "Polar Explorer Carsten Borchgrevink (1895, 1899)" and "A Different Polar Explorer: Lady, Last of the Enderby Island Cattle (1993)", The November Third Club, April 2009
• "Midwinter: The Poet Imagines MacMillan Eating Frozen Eider Eggs in Labrador" The So-and-So Series (podcast & broadside), July 2008
• Romanian translations of several poems: Octavian Blaga's "Zodii în cumpănă"
• "Now You See Me," Verse Daily, July 5, 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