The Trailhead (Hardcover)

"I'm learning to allow for visions," the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that history. A "conversion narrative" of sorts, the book examines the self as a "burned-over district," individual and cultural pain as a crucible in which the book's sibyls and spinsters are remade, transfigured. Sacralization/is when things become holy, also/when vertebrae fuse," the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered calling-a firm faith in the power and worth of the female voice-and a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.

General

Imprint:	Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Wesleyan Poetry Series
Release date:	April 2018
Authors:	Kerri Webster
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	90
ISBN-13:	978-0-8195-7811-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8195-7811-8
Barcode:	9780819578112

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