Once, Then
Autor Andrea Scarpinoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2014
In her debut full-length poetry collection, Andrea Scarpino’s elegies move between personal and political loss, between science, myth, and spirituality, and between lyric intensity and narrative clarity. At their heart is a longing for those we have lost, and an acknowledgement that loss irrevocably changes us and what we understand of the world. Blending mythological figures such as Persephone and Achilles, scientific approaches to knowledge learned from her microbiologist father, and a deep ambivalence regarding religious ideas of death and afterlife, Scarpino’s poems invite us to examine the world, our own place in it, and what to make of its continual collapse.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781597099745
ISBN-10: 1597099740
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Red Hen Press
Colecția Red Hen Press
ISBN-10: 1597099740
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Red Hen Press
Colecția Red Hen Press
Recenzii
“Poetry never brings back those we’ve lost, but the best poems of mourning forge dignity in a newly emptied world. The craft, restraint, and lyric insistence of Andrea Scarpino’s poems give Once, Then an Orphic intensity. This book is gorgeous, and necessary.”
—Don Bogen
“In these Orphic songs of grief, Andrea Scarpino honors those whose deaths break empathy wide open in us. Two very personal losses embark Scarpino on a lyrical underworld journey, where she traverses the atrocities we know as Hiroshima, Auschwitz, the Manson murders and others, in order to create her own ‘etymology of goodbye.’ With Once, Then, Andrea Scarpino balances private and public, the human and the mythic scale, thereby restoring our classical notion of the elegiac poem.”
—Kathy Fagan, author of Lip
—Don Bogen
“In these Orphic songs of grief, Andrea Scarpino honors those whose deaths break empathy wide open in us. Two very personal losses embark Scarpino on a lyrical underworld journey, where she traverses the atrocities we know as Hiroshima, Auschwitz, the Manson murders and others, in order to create her own ‘etymology of goodbye.’ With Once, Then, Andrea Scarpino balances private and public, the human and the mythic scale, thereby restoring our classical notion of the elegiac poem.”
—Kathy Fagan, author of Lip
Notă biografică
Andrea Scarpino received an MFA in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in numerous journals, including The Cincinnati Review, Connecticut Review, The Los Angeles Review, PANK, and Prairie Schooner. She is the author of the chapbook The Grove Behind (Finishing Line Press, 2009), is a faculty member with Union Institute and University’s Cohort Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies, and is a weekly contributor for the blog Planet of the Blind. She lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Extras
Self Portrait as Achilles
When he told of my birth, my father
always said, And there were your toes
pointing straight—astonishment, two feet
that wouldn’t flex no matter how he pushed
against my soles. Plaster casts to my hips
then surgery, a cut down each heel
to lengthen tendons, give flexibility.
For years, braces, orthopedic shoes,
examining rooms where doctors noted
each degree of movement gained.
My father would sit in a black steel chair
until the doctors left, then kneel on the floor
in front of me, pull on my ankle socks,
cradle each scarred foot in his hands.
When he told of my birth, my father
always said, And there were your toes
pointing straight—astonishment, two feet
that wouldn’t flex no matter how he pushed
against my soles. Plaster casts to my hips
then surgery, a cut down each heel
to lengthen tendons, give flexibility.
For years, braces, orthopedic shoes,
examining rooms where doctors noted
each degree of movement gained.
My father would sit in a black steel chair
until the doctors left, then kneel on the floor
in front of me, pull on my ankle socks,
cradle each scarred foot in his hands.
Descriere
An “etymology of goodbye,” Andrea Scarpino’s full-length debut rejuvenates the elegy and bears witness to a world in continual collapse.