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Distantly (Paperback)
Nicole Brossard, Sylvain Gallais, Cynthia Hogue
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R464
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A bilingual collection of poems that offers a surreal perspective
of urban experience. This bilingual edition of Nicole Brossard's
lyrical poetry is a sequence of lush, taut cityscapes. Known for
her elliptical and materially grounded poetics, Brossard creates an
intimate series of poems drawn loosely from urban experience. The
poems comprise an evocative distillation of postmodern urban life
with a sharp sense of cultural and gendered histories of violence
and beauty and struggles for survival and intimacy. The poems
capture the emotional and ecological surroundings of each city and
its people. The cities in Brossard's poems feel surreal and in them
dwell survivors of "misfortunes," living in urban landscapes with
their "gleaming debris" and "bridges, ghats, / rivers in a time of
peace and torture." These poems gesture toward a transmuted social
context and toward a quest "to meet the horizon the day after the
horizon."
An electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual
collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a
"natural body" An innovative book-length poem that delves into the
intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and
women naturalists, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners is an
experience of looking for "Woman's Work" in American natural
history museums. Why, for instance, have the contributions of
taxidermist and naturalist Martha Maxwell, the first person to
create a "habitat group" display in the United States, and Delia
Akeley, the wife of the "father of modern taxidermy," been largely
erased? Sarah Mangold mines language from natural history texts and
taxidermy manuals from the 1800s to explore the perception and the
reception of women in male-dominated scientific pursuits, as well
as the doctrine of nature as pure, unpopulated, and outside
historical and political time. A stunning work of visual and
textual collage, Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners creates a
vibrant textual ecology that utilizes language as landscape while
reshaping notions of nature and the natural.
In her stunning ninth collection of poetry, In June the Labyrinth,
Cynthia Hogue tells a deeply personal lyric of love and loss
through a mythic story. This book-length serial poem follows Elle,
a dying woman, as she travels a trans-historical,
trans-geographical terrain on a quest to investigate the labyrinth
not only as myth and symbol, but something akin to the “labyrinth
of the broken heart.” At the heart of Elle’s individual story
is the earnest female pilgrim’s journey, full of disappointment
but also hard-won wisdom and courage—inspired by Hogue’s own
composited experience with loss, in particular the death of her
mother. Rooted in the idea of the labyrinth as a symbol for life,
as in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe that Hogue would visit
the summer of her mother’s death, these poems above all distill,
fracture, recompose, and tell only partially—literally in parts
but also in loving detail—the story of a life.
Physical and emotional pain, internal scarring, and explorations of
social illness color the poems of this collection with hauntingly
honest accounts, simultaneously filling readers with both a sense
of hope and of surrender.
Poetry. Fusing lyric meditation and narrative perceptions, the
poems in Cynthia Hogue's new collection FLUX track the natural
world and the self in it--from the Sonoran Desert of the Southwest
to the far north of Iceland. In the tradition of the distilled and
lyrically abstract poetry of Dickinson and H.D., FLUX opens into
visionary language and the search for transcendence. "Emerson
described life as 'a flux of moods' and in her fine new book of
poems, her best yet, Cynthia Hogue takes that impermanence, that
emotional volatility, as her first subject, reading the natural
world for signs, pushing the far edges of things, invoking her key
female precursors as inspirational presences (Emily Dickinson,
H.D.), and letting her imagination flow and even soar against the
brute realities of death" --Edward Hirsch.
"Readers of this book will want to take advantage of the editors'
detailed summaries of the novel's characters--including 'keys' to
surrogate/conflated characters (such as H.D.'s use of her sometime
nom de plume, Delia Alton, as both author and protagonist of this
novel) and H.D.'s use of dream and symbolism. Valuable for
modernists; required reading for H.D. scholars."--Choice "Engages
many important critical questions: the place of the occult in
modernism, women writers' response to war, the historical and
biographical contexts of H.D.' s late writing. The editors give a
forceful presentation of the novel's significance."--Eileen
Gregory, University of Dallas "A haunting novel of spiritual duress
and survival, it remains eerily relevant today."--Donna Hollenberg,
University of Connecticut Never before published, The Sword Went
Out to Sea is the first book in H.D. prose trilogy that continues
with White Rose and the Red and concludes with The Mystery. This
complex, semi-autobiographical novel combines H.D.'s interest in
the occult and experiences during the Blitz, and sheds light on the
aesthetics and origins of literary modernism.
In this unusual and insightful collection, fourteen full-length
literary interviews with innovative female poets of the last forty
years, enhanced with a selection of their poems and prefaced by
short introductions, present a wide and accessible range of forms,
schools, politics, and conversations. By giving us each poet's own
voice in a medium other than poetry, the interviews provide
important cultural and historical contexts that help define notions
of innovation and contribute to a fuller understanding of these
experimental poems. Poets and literary scholars Elisabeth Frost and
Cynthia Hogue selected writers with particular attention to
diversity in terms of ethnicity, philosophical concerns, and
aesthetic movements, including the New York School, the Black Arts
Movement, and language writing. By bringing together poets not
usually considered in the same critical context, the editors
clarify the ways in which these innovative women have affected
ideas of poetry and poetic practice. The engaging interviews (whose
questions are often as interesting and informed as the responses),
introductory texts, and selected poems allow readers to forge
productive connections among the most important voices of late
twentieth-century American poetry.
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