Salient - Couverture souple

Gray, Elizabeth T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811229246 ISBN 13 : 9780811229241

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020

Synopsis

In the foreword to her book-length poem, Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, "This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the chöd ritual, the core 'severance' practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdrön, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint." Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading "not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning." Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual chöd visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating lyrical engagement with The Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. is the author of the poetry collections Salient and Series India, and the translator of Wine and Prayer: Eighty Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz and Iran: Poems of Dissent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811229246
• ISBN 13: 9780811229241
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne