Two Open Doors in a Field

<p>The poems of <em>Two Open Doors in a Field</em> are constructed through deliberate limitations restlessly exploring place desire and spirituality. A profusion of sonnets rises from a single circumstance: Sophie Klahr's experience of driving thousands of miles alone while listening to the radio where unexpected landscapes make listening to the unexpected more acute. Accompanied by the radio Klahr's experience of land is transformed by listening and conversely the body of the radio is sometimes lost to the body of the land. The love story at the core of this work Klahr's bond with Nebraska becomes the engine of this travelogue. However far the poems range beyond Nebraska they are tethered to an environment of work and creation a place of dirt beneath the nails where one can see every star and feel acutely the complexity of connection.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Sophie Klahr</strong> is a poet teacher and editor. Her poems have appeared in the <em>New Yorker</em> <em>American Poetry Review</em> <em>Ploughshares</em> <em>Poetry London</em> and elsewhere. Klahr is the author of <em>Meet Me Here at Dawn</em>.</p>