Author : Meredith L. McGill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813542308
The transatlantic crossing of people and goods shaped nineteenth-century poetry in surprising ways. This book focuses on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explores the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures.
Author : Heid E. Erdrich
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816530084
Cell Traffic presents new poems and uncollected prose poetry along with selected work from award-winning poet Heid Erdrich's three previous poetry collections. Erdrich's new work reflects her continuing concerns with the tensions between science and tradition, between spirit and body. She finds surprising common ground while exploring indigenous experience in multifaceted ways: personal, familial, biological, and cultural. The title, Cell Traffic, suggests motion and Erdrich considers multiple movements-cellular transfer, the traffic of DNA through body parts and bones, "migration" through procreation, and the larger "movements" of indigenousness and ancestral inheritance.ÊErdrich's wry sensibility, sly wit, and keenly insightful mind have earned her a loyal following. Her point of view is always slightly off center, and this lends a particular freshness to her poetry. The debunking and debating of the science of origins is one of Erdrich's focal subjects. In this collection, she turns her observational eye to the search for a genetic mother of humanity, forensic anthropology's quest for the oldest known bones, and online offers of genetic testing. But her interests are not limited to science. She freely admits popular culture into her purview as well, referencing sci-fi television series and Internet pop-up ads.
Author : Joan Naviyuk Kane
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822988356
Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane’s work will see the arctic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of misogyny, violence, and systemic failures. These contexts catch the voice of the poems’ speakers, and we perceive the currents they create. Excerpt from “Dark Traffic” Consolation may turn out to be a guttural practice, after all, the small gesture of sound lodged deep before it glides without warning downward. There is nothing but the wind, a howl and dive where water is thrown over water and sown into it.
Author : Ching-In Chen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780980040722
This novel-in-poems chronicles the life of Ziaomei, an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this collection follows Xiaomei's life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for a way to deal with her complicated histories.
Author : Ke Śivāreḍḍi
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Telugu poetry
ISBN : 9788126021628
The Book Brings Together For The First Time In English Translation Some Of The Best Poems Of K. Siva Reddy, One Of The Most Powerful Poets In Telugu Today. Rural Agricultural Life And Nature In All Its Variety, Childhood, Women, Immense Faith In Man And Life, Oppression, Exploitation And Revolution, Power Of The Collective Strength And The Power Of The Word Are Some Of The Recurrent Subjects In His Oeuvre That Spans More Than Decades Of His Life.
Author : Gaia Holmes
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1912697149
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 Gaia Holmes’ third collection of poetry transports us to the edge of things: to remote, treeless islands, to dark, unfathomable mines, to the gaping maw of grief. With frailty and ferocity, these poems map out the strange absences left in our lives when a rupture occurs – like the sudden appearance of a sinkhole – threatening to pull everything else down with it. Where the Road Runs Out is a powerful and intimate portrait of loss, isolation, and ultimately healing. Above all, it is a paean to the landscape, and the myths, magic and mysteries that lie just beneath the surface. ‘More like incantation or witchcraft – Gaia’s poems are spells, taking the most ordinary and mundane of things, and working some metamorphosis on them, so they shine like stars – tiny but brilliant.’ – Sara Maitland 'A bittersweet gem.' - STORGY 'Holmes is an expert in her field, and this is obvious in her skilled, careful and beautifully strange poetry collection.' - Northern Soul
Author : Lloyd Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2000-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0226741931
In Cairo Traffic, his third book of poems, Lloyd Schwartz asks the Sphinx to explain the riddle "about, you know, / Time and Power and Families-the one you think you / have the answer to. Tell me your answer! / No . . . don't." The search for answers takes the poet to some surprising, often phantasmagoric places, and back again to the self, to dreams, to home, and even to the nursing home where his mother-sphinxlike herself-becomes the person asking the dark questions and providing some unexpected answers. These extraordinary narratives-funny and frightening, seductive and profoundly moving-explore the intersections of character and language, the places where common speech mysteriously transforms itself into poetry. This book, which includes several translations of contemporary Brazilian poems, confirms Schwartz's growing reputation as an intensely compelling and original poet.
Author : Kenneth Goldsmith
Publisher : Make Now Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Poetry.The latest in Goldsmith's transcription and defamiliarization efforts, TRAFFIC exhibits the author's signature mode: remediating found texts and crossing artifice with everyday life". "In both form and content, Kenneth Goldsmith's TRAFFIC recalls nothing so much as the extended tracking shot in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week-End, and the book's audacious sustain elicits the same series of responses: surprise, admiration, amusement, incredulity, horror, recognition, terror, boredom, impatience, awe...."--Craig Dworkin.
Author : Larry Levis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2013-08-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822979276
The result is a book of discursive meditations that will amply reward the reader. Part travelogue, part pilgrimage in which the shrines remain hidden until they are recognized later, Larry Levis’s startling and complex fifth book of poems is about the enslavement to desire for personal freedom, and the awareness of its price.
Author : Gil Ott
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Poetry. "As an architect of the gap, Gil Ott provides many doors whereby this place may be entered and whereby you may encounter and be part of the 'traffic' of that occurrence. It's not a house of many mansions, but it is poetry, a place which may not take place unless you enter. So: a different sort of gesture, one of welcome invitation. Think it over. What have other hands offered you lately?" - John Taggart.
