Leaving Tulsa - Couverture souple

Foerster, Jennifer Elise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816522367 ISBN 13 : 9780816522361

Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2013

Synopsis

In her first magical collection of poetry, Jennifer Elise Foerster weaves together a mythic and geographic exploration of a woman's coming of age in a dislocated time. Leaving Tulsa, a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the American continent through landscapes at once stark and lush, ancient and apocalyptic. The imagery that cycles through the poems--fire, shell, highway, wing--gives the collection a rich lyrical-dramatic texture. Each poem builds on a theme of searching for a lost "self"--an "other" America--that crosses biblical, tribal, and ecological mythologies.

In Leaving Tulsa, Foerster is not afraid of the strange or of estrangement. The narrator occupies a space in between and navigates the offbeat experiences of a speaker that is of both Muscogee and European heritage. With bold images and candid language, Foerster challenges the perceptions of what it means to be Native, what it means to be a woman, and what it means to be an American today. Ultimately, these brave and luminous poems engage and shatter the boundaries of time, self, and continent.

Foerster's journey transcends both geographic space and the confines of the page to live vividly in the mind of the reader.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Elise Foerster has an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and she was Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Widely published in journals and anthologies, Foerster is of German, Dutch, and Muscogee descent and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arizona Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816522367
• ISBN 13: 9780816522361
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible