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Circle (Paperback)
Victoria Chang, Jon Tribble
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R697
Discovery Miles 6 970
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo
Emerson essay, "Circle," the first collection from Victoria Chang,
adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These
lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of
womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs
away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and
context. Locating human desire within the helixes of politics,
society, and war, Chang skillfully draws arcs between T'ang Dynasty
suicides and Alfred Hitchcock leading ladies, between the Hong Kong
Flower Lounge and an all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch, the Rape of
Nanking and civilian casualties in Iraq.
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Cinema Muto (Paperback)
Jesse Lee Kercheval; Series edited by Jon Tribble
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R503
Discovery Miles 5 030
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book celebrates the golden age of silent cinema. In ""Cinema
Muto"", Jesse Lee Kercheval examines the enduring themes of time,
mortality, and love as revealed through the power of silent film.
Following the ten days of the annual Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in
Italy, this collection of ekphrastic poems are love letters to the
evocative power of silent cinema. Kercheval's poems elegantly
capture the allure of these rare films, which compel hundreds of
pilgrims from around the world - from scholars and archivists, to
artists and connoisseurs - to flock to Italy each autumn. ""Cinema
Muto"" celebrates the flickering tales of madness and adventure,
drama and love, which are all too often left to decay within
forgotten vaults. As reels of Mosjoukine and D. W. Griffith float
throughout the collection, a portrait also emerges of the simple
beauty of Italy in October and of two lovers who are drawn together
by their mutual passion for an extinct art. Together they revel in
recapturing 'the black and white gestures of a lost world.'
""Cinema Muto"" is a tender tribute to the brief yet unforgettable
reign of silent film. Brimming with stirring images of dreams,
desire, and the ghosts of cinema legends gone by, Kercheval's verse
is a testament to the mute beauty and timeless lessons that may
still be discovered in a fragile roll of celluloid.
This title juxtaposes themes of popular culture and apocalypse.
""The Last Predicta"" is Chad Davidson's searing collection of
poetry dedicated to endings of all varieties. From odes to the
corporate cornucopia of Target and the aggressive cheer of a
Carnival cruise, to emotive examinations of Caravaggio's ""The
Calling of St. Matthew"" or flies circling a putrescent bowl of
forgotten fruit, Davidson weaves a lyrical web of apocalyptic
scenarios and snapshots of pop culture.Throughout the volume appear
cataclysms large and small, whether the finality of a minute passed
or the deaths of a thousand swans at Seneca Lake in 1912. Images of
King Kong, Starburst candies, and the Brady Bunch swim with
mythological figures, Roman heroes, and dead animals as Davidson
deftly explores the relationship between the mundane and the
profound. At the center of the collection sits the Predicta
television itself, 'the lives blooming there in Technicolor,' at
once futuristic and nostalgic in its space age prophecy.Moving in
their very simplicity, these poems resonate with discoveries that
belie their seemingly ordinary wellsprings. Chad Davidson's
stunning collection repeatedly explores the moment of revelation
and all its accompanying aftermaths. ""The Last Predicta"" leads
readers to ponder all manner of predictions, endings, and
everything that follows.
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If No Moon (Paperback)
Moira Linehan; Series edited by Jon Tribble
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R567
Discovery Miles 5 670
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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If No Moon by award-winning author Moira Linehan documents the
effects of profound loss and the dark withdrawal into grief.
Wherever the author turns - the landscape of her backyard in
Massachusetts, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, the museums of
Florence, or the cliffs of Inishmor in Ireland - she sees only the
geography of emptiness. Crossovers between craft and art, form and
voice, knitting and memory, recur throughout the poems. Lying
within the traditions of narrative poetry, elegy, and the lyric,
the collection reveals the mysterious journey of return. Coming
full circle to find again the lyrical and the transcendent within
the everyday, beauty eventually wins out. ""If No Moon"",
accessible to all who have or will experience loss, is the voice of
one who has come to understand that there is no other work but
starting over.
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Red Clay Suite (Paperback)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers; Series edited by Jon Tribble
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R658
Discovery Miles 6 580
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In her third book of poems, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers expresses her
familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American
South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of
poetry, ""The Gospel of Barbecue"" and ""Outlandish Blues"", use
the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in
""Red Clay Suite"", Jeffers approaches the southern landscape as
utopia and dystopia - a crossroads of race, gender, and blood.
These poems signal the ending movement of her crossroads blues and
complete the last four ""bars"" of a blues song, resting on the
final, and essential, note of resolution and reconciliation.
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Roam (Paperback)
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett; Series edited by Jon Tribble
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R565
Discovery Miles 5 650
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"Roam" explores the loss of a parent to cancer and the resulting
uprootedness that loss can create. In searching for a sense of home
and belonging, this collection of free verse looks both inward and
outward, to landscapes rural and urban, and speaks in haunting and
musical lyrics. Unexpected voices emerge from history and
myth--those of Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Circe, Daedalus and Icarus,
and Achilles' mother, Thetis--and mingle with the author's own
voice. From the naming of the first woman, Eve, to the naming of
the first European child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, these
characters seek full houses and, instead, discover empty ones. In a
voice that is southern, feminist, and unflinching in its
assessments of the self, Susan B. A. Somers-Willett treats personal
loss without ceremony or nostalgia. The poems of "Roam "look
homeward while acknowledging that one can never return to such
elusive comforts. Her lyrics reveal the dangers and delights of an
ever-changing, ever-traveling sense of self.
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