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The Milk Hours - Poems (Hardcover)
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The Milk Hours - Poems (Hardcover)
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List price R571
Loot Price R468
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Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is
an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist
in a state of loss. “We lived overlooking the walls overlooking
the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose
recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things,
punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed
histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets
unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami,
Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a
transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are
poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray
far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and
aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant
investigations. Indeed, while John James begins with the
biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood, the
exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge
from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it
to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live
in a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal
and public loss? How do we make meaning, and to whom—or what—do
we turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse?
General
Imprint: |
Milkweed Editions
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2019 |
Authors: |
John James
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Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
88 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-57131-508-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-57131-508-X |
Barcode: |
9781571315083 |
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