Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare - Couverture souple

Haskins, Lola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822965801 ISBN 13 : 9780822965800

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

Synopsis

Asylum presents the kind of journey John Clare might have taken in 1841 if, when he escaped the madhouse, he'd been traveling in his head rather than on his feet. Lola Haskins starts out with as little sense of direction as Clare had, and yet, after wandering all over the map, she too finally reaches her destination. The four sections in this book are where she rests for the night. The first looks tenderly at the cycle of human life. The second renders the world around her as if she were painting it. By the third, having lost her way, she turns to the supernatural and in the process is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. The book ends as she finds it again and arrives in her dear north-west England, having learned from John Clare that she “can be homeless at home and half-gratified to find I can be happy anywhere.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lola Haskins is the author of twelve books of poetry and three of prose. Among her honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, several awards for narrative poetry, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from Poetry Society of America. She currently serves as Honorary Chancellor of the Florida State Poets Association. She divides her time between Gainesville, Florida and Skipton, North Yorkshire.  
 

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Constellated
 
 
When the atoms in my body
 
return to stars
 
They will not remember
 
this five am
 
out my window,
 
neither the moor
 
asleep on the horizon,
 
nor, across her darkened hips,
 
the scatters
 
of bright yellow gorse.
 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822965801
• ISBN 13: 9780822965800
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 75
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne