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Last Seen de Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Last Seen: Wisconsin Poetry Series

Autor Jacqueline Jones LaMon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2011
Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, this provocative and heartrending collection of poems evokes the experience of what it means to be among the missing in contemporary America. This thought-provoking collection of persona poems looks at absence from the standpoint of the witnesses surrounding the void and offers an intimate depiction of those impossible moments of aftermath lived by those who remain accounted for and present. While enabling us to question our own sense of identity, this unique collection of poems reveals the blurred edges of separation between them and us and the impact that the missing have upon our present and future.


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299282943
ISBN-10: 0299282945
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series

Recenzii

“The persons ‘last seen’ in Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s beautifully haunting book include missing children the poet has researched and imagined and a young woman whose apparent leap off the Bay Bridge is at the center of ‘The San Francisco Sonnets.’ These absences, explored through a variety of formal strategies and peripheral perspectives, are echoed in fragments from the life of an elusive ‘you,’ and inform even the momentary joys of the abecedarian ‘Boy Met Girl’ poems. In their powerful tension between absence and presence, between broken narrative and richly detailed lyric, LaMon’s poetic sequences put all our assumptions about stability and permanence into question.”—Martha Collins, author of Blue Front

“At the heart of Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s new collection Last Seen is a haunting series of poems born of the silence tragedy and loss wedges into our lives. With restraint and through a variety of characters, LaMon gives voice to those whose voices have been lost to us, who’ve left behind only questions and vivid empty spaces the way a boy, dragging his foot, leaves a trace to follow, fleeting as a ‘mark in the snow.’”—Natasha Tretheway, author of Native Guard

“The most disturbing poetics of loss is often the most valuable, beautiful, and lethal. Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s Last Seen, winner of the 2011 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, is a deeply crafted sequence of poems about long-missing African American children in the US. LaMon is a master of the persona poem, where the voices of children, parents, abductors, and friends interact as each tale is revealed. Most poems are built in one single, long stanza, which adds to the tension and drama described. The result is a work in which multiple worlds of love and yearning become one large canvas of intimate humanity.”—The Bloomsbury Review

Notă biografică

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is associate professor of English and director of the MFA program in creative writing at Adelphi University. She is author of the poetry collection Gravity, U.S.A. and the novel In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. Her poems have appeared in such journals as the Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mythium, and RATTLE.

Extras

Their name for you tastes bitter and uncooked.
Do not listen when they say you were adopted.
 
Hear your given, gnaw upon this gristle.
You are someone’s missing boy.
 
Your father named you
Jeremiah.
—excerpt from “How the Bryant Boy Will Know”
© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments        
Polygraph: The Control Questions
    Who are you and whom do you love?        
    Where did you come from / how did you arrive?        
    How will you begin?        
    How will you live now?        
    What is the shape of your body?        
    Who is responsible for the suffering of your mother?        
The Elsewhere Chronicles
    Preface        
    Mrs. Minor Gives Directions to Strangers        
    Two Waffles and a Tall Glass of Milk         
    The Clairvoyant Channels Clea Hall        
    Florida Keys Unidentified        
    Ten Items or Less        
    The Age-Progression Artist Pencils Thicker Lashes        
    A Suspect Mother Answers during Polygraph        
    "Let Me Run Upstairs and Get My Purse . . ."        
    Back Roads        
    How the Bryant Boy Will Know        
    The Facial Reconstructionist Has Cocktails with the Girls        
    Inheritance        
    Loony Toons        
    Last Seen        
    The Network News Director Addresses His Process of Selection        
    For My Husband: Who Took Our Daughter to the Park So I Could Get Some Rest, Then Fell Asleep and Awakened to an Empty Stroller        
Boy Met Girl
    At the Carnival, Near Prospect Park        
    Through a Mutual Friend        
    At Lance and Carol's Wedding        
    In July, at Nathan's Clam Bar        
    On the Tennis Courts        
    At B. Altman's Department Store        
    On the Subway        
    At Rockaway Beach, in Late June        
    At Claire's Father's Funeral        
The San Francisco Sonnets
    The Taker Returns from a Ten-Minute Break        
    San Francisco Bridge Suicide Jumper Considers Relativity        
    The Missing Girl's Sister        
    Prom King Goes Stag His Senior Year        
    The Junior Detective's Wife Speaks Out on the Day of Their Divorce        
    The Missing Girl's Mother        
    Priest Refuses Comment on Accident Driver's Acquittal        
    Olympic Hopeful Assesses Her Victory        
    The Missing Girl's Cousin        
    The Present Song of Seagulls on the San Francisco Bay        
    The Missing Girl's Boyfriend        
    The Teacher Prepares the Crisis Counseling Team        
    Couple Tours Alcatraz on Their Silver Anniversary        
    The Missing Girl's Father        
Polygraph: The Guilty Knowledge Test
    . . .        
    What do you remember about the earth?        
    What are the consequences of silence?        
    Tell me what you know about dismemberment        
    Describe a morning you woke without fear    
    And what would you say if you could?        
    How will you / have you prepare(d) for your death?    
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Descriere

Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, this provocative and heartrending collection of poems evokes the experience of what it means to be among the missing in contemporary America.