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Whale Fall - Poems
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You Save R84 (20%)
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Acclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David
Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh
collection. Whale Fall is about time, measured in the wingbeats of
a hummingbird or the epochs of geological change, and about place,
whether a backyard in Ohio or the slopes of a melting glacier. In
the exquisite, musical title poem, a deft hybrid of eco-poetic
alarm and intimate narrative, Baker transports us to the deep sea
as a single gray whale carcass falls, decays, and is reinhabited by
a cosmos of teeming lives. Among the strands of ocean health,
microplastics, and related calamities of human disregard, the poet
weaves in a personal story of chronic illness. The result is a
stirring, confident work, astonishing in its emotional acuity and
lyric range. Each poem in Whale Fall is an echolocation, emitting
its music to situate itself among others in the vastness of the
world. Amidst climate change and catastrophe, as amidst a blooming
viburnum or a viral disease, these poems send their songs across
empty spaces of a line, a page, or a continent, to see who is out
there, moving in the depths of being.
General
Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2024 |
Authors: |
David Baker
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Dimensions: |
218 x 165mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
112 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-07468-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-324-07468-X |
Barcode: |
9781324074687 |
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