Ransom Street
Autor Claire Millikinen Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 2019
Ransom Street is Claire Millikin’s third collection of poetry with 2Leaf Press. The poems in this volume meditate on the idea of ransom to explore legacies of violence in the southeastern United States, ultimately seeking moments of reckoning for these unsettled histories. A fee paid to release a prisoner, ransom can, Millikin shows us, initiate a sacrificial act that drives people apart, but also, when paid, can bring the homeless home. The poems in Ransom Street move through the question of release elliptically, exploring these abstract implications of ransom through a fictional street in a southeastern American town. The presence of inherited violence, cultural and familial, haunt the terrain of Ransom Street, as the poems move through a geography of ghosts, always seeking “ransom,” the sacrificial act that returns the self to wholeness.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781940939902
ISBN-10: 1940939909
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: 2Leaf Press
Colecția 2Leaf Press
ISBN-10: 1940939909
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: 2Leaf Press
Colecția 2Leaf Press
Notă biografică
Claire Millikin is the author of seven books of poetry, including After Houses-Poetry for the Homeless, Tartessos and Other Cities, and Ransom Street, also published by 2Leaf Press. She has taught at the University of Maine Farmington and at the University of Virginia, and she holds a research fellowship at Princeton. Under the name of Claire Raymond, she publishes scholarship focusing on issues of race, gender, and decolonizing theory. Her scholarly books include Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South and Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics.
Recenzii
"Ransom Street is, as its title suggests, concerned with the process of taking and holding for ransom. Each poem capitalizes on the experience of delayed payment; trauma or suffering occurring at one moment must be reimbursed or reckoned with sometime later."
“Imagine a little girl at the beach with a third-degree sunburn. It is raining and she and has been wrapped in a wet sheet. Later she will recall that she as she walked over the dunes, the pain had rendered her ‘awake in every nerve.’ That phrase ends the opening poem in Claire Millikin’s stunning new collection, and it sounds the key notes of a book that tells in sharpened lyric moments the story of a young woman’s coming of age in the face of violence, violation, homelessness, utter alone-ness. But, as the episodes unfold, and the pain is recalled and endured, there emerges from the corner of our eyes an image of a woman who has all along been forging her own fully-realized self and the voice thereof. Keats called our suffering a ‘vale of soul-making.’ Down in that valley is where we find Ransom Street and this poetry of every wakened nerve.”