Echolocation - Couverture souple

Marshall, Sage

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 195748327X ISBN 13 : 9781957483276

Editeur : Middle Creek Publishing & Audio, 2024

Synopsis

Outdoor writer Sage Marshall's debut poetry collection Echolocation weaves the landscapes and ecologies of the American West against themes of violence, adolescence, and beauty. This critical yet compassionate examination of the brutality of boyhood and popular conceptions of masculinity is infused with a deep attunement to the natural world, offering moments of clarity and grace amidst the reality of violence and pain.

"In this series, the body and the landscape are one. The night as well as our bodies are bruised; the fire on the hillside, which is watched like a drive-in movie, ends with ash in our mouths; the forgiveness we have swallowed turns to swallows bursting from deep thickets of grass. This is poetic echolocation. This is a sacred call and response between a writer and all the environments he inhabits."
—Alexander Shalom Joseph, author of Our Mother, The Mountain and Broken Light in a Burning Wood

"In Echolocation, Sage Marshall has crafted poems of brilliant reflection, finding his way through questions we all must ask of coming into our own, even when answers can be held but briefly. Marshall’s poems are vulnerable and inspired, acutely aware of both the beauty we inherit of the world and the pain we inflict on ourselves and others. This is a remarkable debut."
—Erin Block, Author of How You Walk Alone in the Dark, winner of the Colorado Book Award


"Tough and bloody, full of the grit of real life, of lives lived close to the land, lives lived in struggle and brotherly competition and the great stakes of father and son relationships, Sage Marshall’s debut, Echolocation, still manages to be a book of deep tenderness, of love and honor and the wisdom of hard years and the natural world."
—Joe Wilkins, author of Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the of the Oregon Book Award

"Sage Marshall’s Echolocation is built by poems of the body and the intensely physical world. For Marshall, everything is supported by blood. From the obvious hunting and fishing to the locker rooms after hockey practice to hiking mountains to walking home from the bar late at night. But even within the momentum of this collection, Marshall delivers moments without violence where the quiet offers a space to glimpse the relief when a cheek goes unpunched or a duck makes it to the horizon unscathed: “I have fired before / and will again / but today / I stole nothing from the sky.”
—Noah Davis, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize and author of Of This River

"To read Sage’s poetry is to step into a beautiful place of “dank twisted love” that deftly navigates both our natural world and the one of “boys learning to collide.” These poems teach us how to live in a violent world with grace, compassion, and curiosity."
—Michael Garrigan, author of River, Amen & Robbing the Pillars


About the Author

Sage Marshall is a poet, essayist, and outdoors journalist from southwest Colorado. He has lived across the U.S. and currently resides in Western Montana, where he explores the rivers and mountains around Missoula with his partner Bela and their adopted bird dog Gunney. He’s a student of many outdoor pursuits, from skiing and backpacking to fly fishing and duck hunting. Marshall is a contributing writer and former editor of Field & Stream. His creative work has been featured in publications such as The Missouri Review, Sport Literate, Catamaran, and elsewhere.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Middle Creek Publishing & Audio
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 195748327X
• ISBN 13: 9781957483276
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Waye Keith
• Nombre de pages: 90
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