Field of Vision

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Stephanie Horvath

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Plume
13 October 2026

Poetry

In Field of Vision, we travel the landscape of human emotion - and the American landscape becomes emotion, as through deserts, forests, rivers, and coasts the speaker explores the intricacies of her experiences and interactions with nature. She raises her newborn son in a trailer in rural Vermont; in a desert she thinks of the life she left behind in Ohio; she moves to an island in Maine to work at an old motel with a lover. These moments capture, viscerally and intimately, the sense of the gothic in rural America - dark, damp dirt on one's hands, a river that wends its way through fog, the decay of wet leaves on a forest floor, a desert over which vultures circle - moments of birth and life and death. Field of Vision captures the ancient history that weaves into each of our individual histories - of the earth, the animals, the fossils, the moments that comprise us all.

By: Stephanie Horvath
Imprint: Plume
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 126g
ISBN: 9780143139393
ISBN 10: 0143139398
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 13 October 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Stephanie Horvath is a lecturer and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in The Sewanee Review, Bennington Review, Gulf Coast, and Poetry Northwest, among other journals. She lives in Northern California.

Reviews for Field of Vision

“Field of Vision is an exquisite, strange contemplation of contrasts that feel both universal and deeply American: the California desert, drenched Maine shores; tenderness and violence; dreams and the dreamlike twists of real life. These poems twist perceptions, drawing us in, lulling us in order to surprise us. They remind me that poetry can be an act of rescue, reviving not only language but also the reader.” —Elisa Gonzalez, author of Grand Tour