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The North American debut of Tuệ Sỹ—poet, monk, scholar,
dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern
Vietnam—and a new bilingual edition to the Seedbank series. In
addition to being a preeminent scholar of world philosophy and a
Zen master, Tuệ Sỹ is one of Vietnam’s most celebrated poets.
He is a survivor of sixteen years of imprisonment and an eloquent
witness to the tumult, tragedy, and resilience of his country over
the last sixty years—and a full-length translation of his work
into English is long overdue. Assembled and co-translated by
Vietnamese poet and essayist Nguyen Ba Chung and acclaimed American
poet Martha Collins, Dreaming the Mountain reflects a lifetime of
creation, crisis, and commitment. With poems presented on facing
pages in Vietnamese and English, this volume includes the early
imagism of Tuệ Sỹ’s Zen studies as a scholar and critic,
midlife work that represents his attempted retreat from the
devastation of war and subsequent years of imprisonment, and late,
elliptical poems that give intensely lyrical expression to a
lifetime of profound experience. From the “fleeting dream of red
blood at dusk” to the quiet determination of one who sets out to
“repaint the dawn,” these poems reflect the journey of an
artist who speaks for his country, who captures its darkness and
its light. At once personal and universal, coolly observant and
deeply compassionate, the poems of Tuệ Sỹ bring singular
attention to a fleeting, painfully beautiful world.
White Papers is a series of untitled poems that deal with issues of
race from a number of personal, historical, and cultural
perspectives. Expanding the territory of her 2006 book Blue Front,
which focused on a lynching her father witnessed as a child, this
book turns, among other things, to Martha Collins' childhood.
Throughout, it explores questions about what it means to be white,
not only in the poetÆs life, but also in our culture and history,
even our pre-history. The styles and forms are varied, as are the
approaches; some of the poems address race only implicitly, and the
book, like Blue Front, includes some documentary and
\u201cfound\u201d material. But the focus is always on getting at
what it has meant and what it means to be white—to have a race
and racial history, much of which one would prefer to forget, if
one is white, but all of which is essential to remember and to
acknowledge in a multi-racial society that continues to live under
the influence of its deeply racist past.
Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars
escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with
memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light.
In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the kind
of wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled
far, and seen a great deal. While the past may evoke village life
and the present a postmodern urban world, the poems often exhibit a
dual consciousness that allows the poet to reside in both at once.
From the universe to the self, we see Lap's landscapes grow wider
before they focus: black stars receding to dark stairways, infinity
giving way to now. Lap's universe is boundless, yes, but also "just
big enough / To have four directions / With just enough wind, rain,
and trouble to last."
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Bone Map - Poems (Paperback)
Sara Eliza Johnson; Introduction by Martha Collins; Notes by Martha Collins
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Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection,
"Bone Map" (2013 National Poetry Series Winner), pulls shards of
tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse, where violence
and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of
blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to
pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow exposed. "All moments
will shine if you cut them open. / Will glisten like entrails in
the sun." With figurative language that makes long, associative
leaps, and with metaphors and images that continually resurrect
themselves across poems, the collection builds and transforms its
world through a locomotive echo--a regenerative force--that comes
to parallel the psychic quest for redemption that unfolds in its
second half. The result is a deeply affecting composition that will
establish the already decorated young author as an important and
vital new voice in American poetry.
Though she published only five volumes of poetry over the course of
her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her
contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly
forty years, she served as a mentor to many aspiring poets. Her
elegant, honest, and emotionally and formally precise poems, often
addressing the challenges of women's lives-especially the lives of
women in the arts-continue to resonate with a new generation of
readers. In Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention, Martha Collins
and Celia Bland bring together several decades' worth of essential
writing on Cooper's poetry. While some pieces offer close
examination of Cooper's process or thoughtful consideration of the
craft of a single poem, the volume features reviews of her
collections, including a previously unpublished piece on her first
book, The Weather of Six Mornings (1969), by James Wright, a
lifelong champion of her work. Marie Howe, Jan Heller Levi, and
Thomas Lux, among others, share personal remembrances of Cooper as
a teacher, colleague, and inspiration. L. R. Berger's moving
tribute to Cooper's final days closes the volume. Jane Cooper: A
Radiance of Attention will be a welcome addition to the collection
of anyone who has already come to love Cooper's work and will
attract new readers, especially among younger poets, to her
enduring poems.
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Ceremonial Entries (Paperback)
Joseph De Roche; Edited by Kevin Gallagher, Martha Collins
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R440
R374
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Praise for Martha Collins: "A dazzling poet whose poetry is poised
at the juncture between the lyric and ethics, Martha Collins has
addressed some of the most traumatic social issues of the twentieth
century . . . in supple and complex poems. . . .[N]o subject is off
limits for her piercing intellect." —Cynthia Hogue, AWP Chronicle
Stylistically innovative, deeply moving, carefully researched,
Martha Collins's eleventh volume of poetry combines her well-known
attention to social issues with the elegiac mode of her previous
book. She focuses here on race, gun violence, recent wars, and, in
an extended sequence, the history of coal - first as her ancestors
mined it, then from its geological origins to our ecologically
threatened present. Casualty Reports is both indictment and lament,
a work that speaks forcefully to our troubled history and our
present times.
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