Living Room: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Autor Laura Bylenoken Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2022
Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist
Deeply phenomenological and ecological, Laura Bylenok’s poems in Living Room imagine the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life, including animals, plants, bacteria, buildings, and rocks. They explore the permeability of human and nonhuman experience, intelligence, language, and subjectivity. In particular, the poems consider so-called model organisms—nonhuman species studied to understand specific and often human biological processes, diseases, and phenomena—as well as an experience of self and world that cannot be objectively quantified. The impulse of these poems is to slow down, to see and feel, and to listen closely. Language becomes solid, palpable as fruit. Long lines propel breath and push past the lung’s capacity.
Life at a cellular level, synthesis and symbiosis, is revealed through forests, fairy tales, and vines that grow over abandoned houses and hospital rooms. A living room is considered as a room that is lived in and also a room that is alive. Cells are living rooms. A self is a room that shares walls with others. Interconnection and interplay are thematic, and the network of poems becomes a linguistic rendering of a heterogeneous and nonhierarchical ecosystem, using the language of biology, genetics, and neurochemistry alongside fairy tale and dream to explore the interior spaces of grief, motherhood, mortality, and self.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496232366
ISBN-10: 1496232364
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: The Backwaters Press
Colecția The Backwaters Press
Seria The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496232364
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: 5 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: The Backwaters Press
Colecția The Backwaters Press
Seria The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Locul publicării:United States
Extras
Autotheory
The problem is everything
is human. Where to go from there?
I say I
don’t feel like myself.
I ate a little typhoid once, and the people there
instructed me without saying okay, vomit!
And no amount of listening
can generate knowledge of this kind.
I am, for example, eukaryote
before I am listening.
Mother, I
am listening for your instructions.
There’s a little window in my room
with bars set into the concrete sill
to keep the things inside in
and outside out
and just now the translucent polyester curtain
baby blue as an old eyelid
waves in and out
and waves in
some cumbia from a car stereo
and then a horn, then almost gone
before I recognize it, a gesture in the air
of antiseptic.
The problem is everything
is human. Where to go from there?
I say I
don’t feel like myself.
I ate a little typhoid once, and the people there
instructed me without saying okay, vomit!
And no amount of listening
can generate knowledge of this kind.
I am, for example, eukaryote
before I am listening.
Mother, I
am listening for your instructions.
There’s a little window in my room
with bars set into the concrete sill
to keep the things inside in
and outside out
and just now the translucent polyester curtain
baby blue as an old eyelid
waves in and out
and waves in
some cumbia from a car stereo
and then a horn, then almost gone
before I recognize it, a gesture in the air
of antiseptic.
Cuprins
Autotheory
Waiting Room
Forest Floor
Common Fraction
Mirror Stage
Decomposition
Waiting Room
Living Room
Decomp Sonnets
Dura Mater
Decomp
Ecological Self
Open Field
Symbiosis
Autotheory
b73
Blue
Language Game
Zea mays
Oogenesis
Model Organism
Living Room
Habit
Heirloom
Fairy Tale with Redox
Elegy with Redox
Redox
Parable of the Wolf
Acknowledgments
Notes
Waiting Room
Forest Floor
Common Fraction
Mirror Stage
Decomposition
Waiting Room
Living Room
Decomp Sonnets
Dura Mater
Decomp
Ecological Self
Open Field
Symbiosis
Autotheory
b73
Blue
Language Game
Zea mays
Oogenesis
Model Organism
Living Room
Habit
Heirloom
Fairy Tale with Redox
Elegy with Redox
Redox
Parable of the Wolf
Acknowledgments
Notes
Recenzii
“Living Room is an absolute phenomenon, a complete synthesis of science, emotion, deep ecology, and poetry. Laura Bylenok has given us an astonishing view of life in a post-anthropocentric world.”—Huascar Medina, poet laureate of Kansas and literary editor of seveneightfive magazine
“Chemistry sings, and biology sings, and mitochondria sing, and maize sings, and genomes sing, and the borders of us and not us sing, and living rooms sing, and stories sing, and glass sings, and fur sings, and bodies sing, and sometimes these things sing of pain, and other times they sing disintegration, and other times they sing of beauty or of living or of the bright lens of loss, and most of those times they sing all of these things at once. I am speaking of course of Laura Bylenok’s Living Room which you should read immediately.”—Ander Monson, author of I Will Take the Answer and Predator
Descriere
Living Room imagines the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life to explore the permeability of human and nonhuman experience, intelligence, language, and subjectivity, and to consider an experience of self and world that cannot be objectively quantified.