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Kali Lightfoot’s kindergarten teacher told her parents that Kali
had “a well-developed sense of beauty and can skip with both
feet.” This proved prophetic for a life that has included a
number of careers and passions—Lightfoot has earned
a master's degree
in physical education, worked as an executive
and a teacher, served as a wilderness ranger,
managed educational
travel, and provided body-oriented
psychotherapy. After gaining her sobriety and coming
out as queer, Lightfoot returned to poetry at the age of
sixty-five, earning her MFA at age seventy. In a debut
collection of poems that favor a narrative style but also
experiment successfully with poetic forms, Lightfoot writes
in a voice that is by turns wistful,
comedic, and grave. After a long career,
she has come late and happily to a life in poetry.
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Theorem (Paperback)
Elizabeth Bradfield; Contributions by Antonia Contro
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R742
R611
Discovery Miles 6 110
Save R131 (18%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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*Selected as a Top 10 Must-Read Book About Antarctica by the
International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators
Poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield's fourth collection, Toward
Antarctica, documents and queries her work as a guide on ships in
Antarctica, offering an incisive insider's vision that challenges
traditional tropes of The Last Continent. Inspired by haibun, a
stylistic form of Japanese poetry invented by 17th-century poet,
Matsuo Basho to chronicle his journeys in remote Japan, Bradfield
uses photographs, compressed prose, and short poems to examine our
relationship to remoteness, discovery, expertise, awe, labor,
temporary societies, "pure" landscapes, and tourism's service
economy. Antarctica was the focus of Bradfield's Approaching Ice,
written before she had set foot on the continent; now Toward
Antarctica furthers her investigation with boots on the ground. A
complicated love letter, Toward Antarctica offers a unique view of
one of the world's most iconic wild places.
Natural history, work, queerness, and family collide in
Interpretive Work. When they do, a deep stubborn will emerges, a
belief in the unexpected beauty of the world "flaws and all. The
poems of this collection foreground the role of the viewer" the
interpreter "smudging self across what's seen." From neighborhood
kids cussing in the cul-de-sac to marbled murrelets calling in
Southeast Alaska, the poems of this book reach toward a moment
where one finds "this unsettlement, / this beauty applauded at
last." Bradfield delivers her bruised truths through a quiet
honesty that stands in ardent defense of mainstream normative
expectations. A male singer has a woman's high, sweet voice,
redefining beauty. A female deer grows antlers. A woman chooses to
be child-free without regret. As a whole, these poems furtively
suggest that the tourist on the sunset cruise ship misinterprets
the cravings of humpback whales in the same way Bradfield's family,
neighbors and bureaucratic officials misunderstand love, sexuality
and gender.
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