Riddle Field: Poems: Test Site Poetry Series
Autor Derek Thomas Dewen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2020 – vârsta ani
"Dew is an exciting and complex new voice in contemporary poetry." —Publisher's Weekly
The beautifully crafted poems in Riddle Field explore two parallel themes, the impact of the impending destruction of a dam on a small town and the trauma of sexual abuse and eventual recovery from it. This work focuses on the environment, human and physical, in which the loss of nature and innocence is born and calls attention to the many ways we create both intimacy and distance when trauma is hidden or denied. Derek Thomas Dew’s language is harsh, honest, and sometimes heartbreaking. His poems capture the confusion and fatigue that must be navigated for a victim of abuse to piece himself back together and the internal strife that comes with carry-ing a traumatic secret that can no longer be ignored.
Rich with unforgettable images and the quiet strength of hard-won survival, Riddle Field tackles the complex process of achieving self-awareness and recovery in the wake of profound trauma.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781948908764
ISBN-10: 194890876X
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Nevada Press
Colecția University of Nevada Press
Seria Test Site Poetry Series
ISBN-10: 194890876X
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Nevada Press
Colecția University of Nevada Press
Seria Test Site Poetry Series
Recenzii
"The collection cultivates and sustains an aura of inventive possibility. Dew is an exciting and complex new voice in contemporary poetry."
—Publisher's Weekly
"Riddle Field is replete with lines that fuse unlike dimensions, relentlessly juxtaposing realms and ideas that create a new kind of knowing. Here, collage and stream of consciousness reveal the interconnectedness inherent in all things. Each line: a deep noticing that can only be chanced upon, relentless and sublime."
—Sherwin Bitsui, author of Dissolve and Flood Song
"In Riddle Field we are made witness to a miracle of the new millennium: America rising out of its actual soil, covered in flowers and malice, music and weaponry, into a body wholly new. These poems propose a spaciousness in what Shakespeare once called "the wide gap of time". They refresh and reprimand us all at once.”
—Donald Revell, author of The English Boat and Drought-Adapted Vine
—Publisher's Weekly
"Riddle Field is replete with lines that fuse unlike dimensions, relentlessly juxtaposing realms and ideas that create a new kind of knowing. Here, collage and stream of consciousness reveal the interconnectedness inherent in all things. Each line: a deep noticing that can only be chanced upon, relentless and sublime."
—Sherwin Bitsui, author of Dissolve and Flood Song
"In Riddle Field we are made witness to a miracle of the new millennium: America rising out of its actual soil, covered in flowers and malice, music and weaponry, into a body wholly new. These poems propose a spaciousness in what Shakespeare once called "the wide gap of time". They refresh and reprimand us all at once.”
—Donald Revell, author of The English Boat and Drought-Adapted Vine
Notă biografică
Derek Thomas Dew poems have appeared in Interim, Twyckenham Notes, The Maynard, The Curator, Two Hawks Quarterly, and Hawaii Pacific Review. He lives in Oregon.
Extras
I'M WALTER
Some stretch their legs out and place their feet far to claim domain.
Some keep their legs together and their knees half-topple to one side.
Some cross their legs and are not unpleasant to speak with.
I’ve made towns of fathers out of small afraid boys
who peel the stickers off my model helicopters
while my force has no beginning and no end,
an action which has always been a memory
like an average man in a town.
*
I had wanted to give
if not mine when was he
of my little intensities
a now I never know
what in the flesh I had wanted
to share until broken like flesh
a fever tans his wrist
rich in dead yawn of a trash truck
moaning through an alley
on the last day of California.
Some stretch their legs out and place their feet far to claim domain.
Some keep their legs together and their knees half-topple to one side.
Some cross their legs and are not unpleasant to speak with.
I’ve made towns of fathers out of small afraid boys
who peel the stickers off my model helicopters
while my force has no beginning and no end,
an action which has always been a memory
like an average man in a town.
*
I had wanted to give
if not mine when was he
of my little intensities
a now I never know
what in the flesh I had wanted
to share until broken like flesh
a fever tans his wrist
rich in dead yawn of a trash truck
moaning through an alley
on the last day of California.
Cuprins
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I.
Town in the Radio 10
Mainland 12
Far From Walter 13
Wet Down 14
Old Carver 15
Confluence 16
Yellow Corner 17
The Nameless 18
Winchuck 19
PART II.
I’m Walter 21
Baby Prince 22
Articles 23
He Ring 24
Grin Burnt 25
Little Bread 26
Last November’s Burn 27
The Mermaid Club 28
Soft Thieves 29
Blue Masking Tape 30
PART III.
Gambit 32
Big Drown 34
Inosculation 35
Short Leg 36
Border Huts 37
Low Bite 38
From Trains 39
My Helicopters 40
Light Us Down 41
That Clapping 42
Cat Root 43
Ring Up Dawn 44
PART IV.
Griddle Six 46
Liar’s Dice 47
Tunnel Music 48
Watchcoat 49
Ducksing 50
Placeholder 51
Trouble Knuckle 52
Elkstone 53
The Allowance 54
Cairn 55
Topples Cake 56
PART V.
Between Churches 58
Land That Knows Hands 59
Cursorial 60
Reliquary 1 61
Reliquary 2 62
Reliquary 3 63
Reliquary 4 64
Very 66
Afterward 68
Notes 69
PART I.
Town in the Radio 10
Mainland 12
Far From Walter 13
Wet Down 14
Old Carver 15
Confluence 16
Yellow Corner 17
The Nameless 18
Winchuck 19
PART II.
I’m Walter 21
Baby Prince 22
Articles 23
He Ring 24
Grin Burnt 25
Little Bread 26
Last November’s Burn 27
The Mermaid Club 28
Soft Thieves 29
Blue Masking Tape 30
PART III.
Gambit 32
Big Drown 34
Inosculation 35
Short Leg 36
Border Huts 37
Low Bite 38
From Trains 39
My Helicopters 40
Light Us Down 41
That Clapping 42
Cat Root 43
Ring Up Dawn 44
PART IV.
Griddle Six 46
Liar’s Dice 47
Tunnel Music 48
Watchcoat 49
Ducksing 50
Placeholder 51
Trouble Knuckle 52
Elkstone 53
The Allowance 54
Cairn 55
Topples Cake 56
PART V.
Between Churches 58
Land That Knows Hands 59
Cursorial 60
Reliquary 1 61
Reliquary 2 62
Reliquary 3 63
Reliquary 4 64
Very 66
Afterward 68
Notes 69
Descriere
Riddle Field tackles the complex process of self-awareness and recovery in the wake of profound sexual trauma by avoiding many of the most direct ways of commenting on it. In interweaving the voices of an entire fictional town that is about to be changed forever by the destruction of a dam, the poems highlight the environment, both human and natural, that sexual trauma is born from, and calls to attention the many ways in which we create intimacy and distance when our trauma is kept secret.