Prayer in Wind - Couverture rigide

SAULITIS, EVA

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1597094447 ISBN 13 : 9781597094443

Editeur : Boreal Books, 2015

Synopsis

In 2010, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor―outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade, and trying to conceive her first child―found herself alone. To break up her days, she began to intern on a small farm, planting leeks, turning compost, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems, Taylor describes the work of this year, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes, "methamphetamine and global economic crisis," these poems embark on a rich exploration of season, self, food, and place. Threading through the farm poets―Hesiod, Virgil, and John Clare―Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Poet and marine biologist Eva Saulitis has studied orcas in Prince William Sound, Alaska, since 1983 with her partner Craig Matkin. She is the author of Prayer in Wind (poetry); Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas (memoir); Many Ways to Say It (poetry); and Leaving Resurrection (essays). Her work has appeared in many journals, including Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, On Earth, Salon, and Orion. A recipient of the 2013 Governor's Award for the Humanities, she lives in Homer, Alaska.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boreal Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597094447
• ISBN 13: 9781597094443
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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