What does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How -- in
the face of the carnage of war, the no longer merely threatened
destruction of the natural world, the faceless threat of spiritual
oversimplification and reactive fear -- does one retain one's
capacity to be both present and responsive? And to what extent does
our capacity to be present, to be fully ourselves, depend on our
relationship to an other and our understanding of and engagement
with otherness itself? With what forces does the sheer act of
apprehending make us complicit? What powers lord over us and what
do we, as a species, and as souls, lord over?
These are among the questions Jorie Graham, in her most personal
and urgent collection to date, undertakes to explore, often from a
vantage point geographically, as well as historically, other. Many
of the poems take place along the coastline known as Omaha Beach in
Normandy, and move between visions of that beach during the Allied
invasion of Europe (whose code name was Operation Overlord) and
that landscape of beaches, fields, and hedgerows as it is known to
the speaker today. In every sense the work meditates on our new
world, ghosted by, and threatened by, competing descriptions of the
past, the future, and what it means to be, as individuals, and as a
people, "free."
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