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Bird Skin Coat de Angela Sorby

Bird Skin Coat: Wisconsin Poetry Series

Autor Angela Sorby
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2009
Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent—doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars—this collection reflects Sorby’s keen eye for blending images. As they shuttle between the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, these poems explore how the radical instability of the world is also the source of its energy.
 
 
Honorable Mention, Posner Book-Length Poetry Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers 
 
Winner, Best Book of Poetry, Midwest Book Awards
 
Winner, Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299231941
ISBN-10: 0299231941
Pagini: 94
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series

Recenzii

“Angela Sorby says, ‘the camera’s holier than the human mind: see how it filters out the truth and leaves the beauty.’ But Sorby’s disposition as a poet is to keep the truth in the picture—the rude, uncoordinated, self-destructive truth—and the skids and barrel rolls of perspective she performs with her idiomatic lyricism always keep the poem alive. ‘Do the drivers deserve their down coats?’ is only one of many penetrating questions this self-employed private eye will ask in the course of her investigative storytelling.”—Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me 

“Angela Sorby’s collection blends the comic and the tragic in entirely original ways.  These poems gaze inward and outward and travel through the world with a keen eye and an unfailing ear for the miraculous music of ordinary language. She brings to each detail a luminous intensity, made that much more startling by its casual subjects—fender-benders, motherhood, the Midwest. Sorby’s is an important voice, speaking to the most important subjects without fear or pretense. Bird Skin Coat is full of striking imagery and compassionate skepticism—an exciting new contribution to American poetry.”—Laura Kasischke, author of Dance and Disappear

“The wise poems of a fire-walker.”—Marilyn Nelson

Notă biografică

Angela Sorby is associate professor of English at Marquette University. She is author of two books, Distance Learning: Poems and Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry.

Extras

The woman he hit
is still 42. She notes with wonder
how her parka fits her perfectly
the way a dove’s skin holds
the whole bird together.
              Fate
is not a thing with feathers,
it’s old, bald, and blind,
a pope who can’t decipher
the man’s name,
          David Pratt,
as he scrawls it on scratch paper.
—excerpt from “Bird Skin Coat”
© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
 

Cuprins

Part One
Bird Skin Coat   
Breathing Out Smoke   
Nostalgia for the Present   
Rose   
Whose Woods These Are   
Neighborhood Watch
Small Talk   
Middle Distance   
Erin's Leather Jacket   
Dragons of the Bible   
Walking Directions   
What Helen Caught   
Catch and Release   
Conversion Narrative   
Mountain of Names   
The Snow-Woman   
The Diagnosis
Insomnia   

Part Two
Kickflip   
The Attic of the Attic   
Prosperity   
Flyover State   
Taj Mahal   
American Camel   
Sky Falling on Cedars   
Sleeping with Stars   
Forest Floor   
Sleeping in the Pioneer Rooms   
Objects Made Real by Observation   
Night Train to Whitefish   
In the Good Pain Wing       
Six Degrees of Separation   
Transport to Sumer   
Museum Study   
First Lady of the War   
Dove and Dove   
The Urn   

Descriere

Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent—doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars—this collection reflects Sorby’s keen eye for blending images