We are the Hunger - Couverture souple

Barrows, Anita

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1945752335 ISBN 13 : 9781945752339

Editeur : Kelsay Books, 2016

Synopsis

The poems in Anita Barrows’ We Are the Hunger take us to a place Seamus Heaney speaks of—where the frontier of nightmare meets the frontier of language. Reading her is like passing through an energy field where you come out sheened from a language where horror and loss are transformed by the fire of imagination and the healing music of poetry. She is both a political poet of witness and a lyric poet of stunning luminous moments; when these merge, we have a kind of poetry that is so necessary for our time, a vision of the whole. If there is loss there is also hope: “not to remain so long in sorrow/that we neglect to dwell also/in gladness.” Throughout her work she keeps alive the idea of individual responsibility in an age of relativism. Her voice is strong and unequivocal. “Let the words of our mouths / be as flame / rising from ruined lands, flame / rising from flame, undiminished.” These are essential poems, poems you want to live with, poems that help you live.
—Joseph Stroud, author of Of This World

The opening poem of this book asks us to confront the fire of Dante’s Purgatory – on the other side of which is Beatrice, his heart’s desire. We Are the Hunger is haunted by beauty and dissolution, by the natural world and the cries of birds and insects, by the human world and its song of destruction. Graves everywhere, “always / wars going on,” but also “cornstalks swaying in the last hot wind of August.” And the fire of hope.
—Alicia Ostriker, author of The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog.

An extraordinary collection. Truth telling, and truly pitched, resonant poems telling intimate and necessary stories set in the harshest landscapes of our times, with insight and compassion.
—Susan Griffin, author of A Chorus of Stones

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1966. She holds Master’s degrees in English and Italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology. Her translations of poetry, plays, fiction and non-fiction from the French, German and Italian have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently, she has collaborated with Joanna Macy on translations of three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke. Six volumes of her poetry have been published, including a previous book, Exile, by The Aldrich Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Tikkun, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Bark, and Bridges. Barrows lives in Berkeley, where she is a professor at The Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with a menagerie of dogs, cats, and birds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kelsay Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1945752335
• ISBN 13: 9781945752339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 86
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg