Terra Nova: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Autor Cynthia Huntingtonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 ian 2017
Finalist, Balcones Poetry Prize, 2017
In this bold and ambitious book-length poem, National Book Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration—what it means to lose, seek, and find home in all its iterations—through a polyphonic work, written in multiple voices and evoking the method of Hart Crane’s The Bridge or the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Yet it is also a tough and vernacular work, owing as much to Patti Smith and the Clash as it does to High Modernism.
Again and again the work shows us outsiders forced into metaphorical and literal wildernesses, whether in a retelling of the biblical Israelites lost in the desert or in stories from Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the new world struggles into being at the edge of the sea. Yet the voices here, across many times and places, refuse to give in to desolation and despair.
Huntington’s approach is hybrid, oscillating between verse and lyrical prose to create a work that falls somewhere between an epic poem and a collection of lyric essays. Whether chronicling the creation of the world and the first exile from the Judeo-Christian Garden of Eden or imagining the terror and thrill of the first sea voyages, this is electric poetry: challenging, startling, and fulfilling.
In this bold and ambitious book-length poem, National Book Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration—what it means to lose, seek, and find home in all its iterations—through a polyphonic work, written in multiple voices and evoking the method of Hart Crane’s The Bridge or the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Yet it is also a tough and vernacular work, owing as much to Patti Smith and the Clash as it does to High Modernism.
Again and again the work shows us outsiders forced into metaphorical and literal wildernesses, whether in a retelling of the biblical Israelites lost in the desert or in stories from Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the new world struggles into being at the edge of the sea. Yet the voices here, across many times and places, refuse to give in to desolation and despair.
Huntington’s approach is hybrid, oscillating between verse and lyrical prose to create a work that falls somewhere between an epic poem and a collection of lyric essays. Whether chronicling the creation of the world and the first exile from the Judeo-Christian Garden of Eden or imagining the terror and thrill of the first sea voyages, this is electric poetry: challenging, startling, and fulfilling.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780809335756
ISBN-10: 0809335751
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Southern Illinois University Press
Colecția Southern Illinois University Press
Seria Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
ISBN-10: 0809335751
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Southern Illinois University Press
Colecția Southern Illinois University Press
Seria Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Notă biografică
Cynthia Huntington is the author of a prose memoir and four books of poetry, including Heavenly Bodies (SIU Press), a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Vermont Arts Council. A former poet laureate of New Hampshire, she is the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Extras
7.
harbor
From the beginning this shelter,
the harbor cupping a depth
that was passage and return,
that was food and men's labor.
The tough boats that made a fleet:
strength it gave to the town, a being.
For hundreds of years the boats going out.
The town to serve them then,
to fit out, crew, supply, unload,
pack fish in the cold storage, gut and slice,
scales glittering in piles you wade through
in high boots, slick underfoot.
They were hard years, hard generations.
Run out to the bend when sails were spotted:
half-masted meant a man was lost.
What was lived here can't be bought,
but what was owned is taken,
what was built falls to strangers. It floods me,
filling, overfilling, this grief
a deepening darkening, overcome.
Still, blueberry, beach plum, cranberry,
bay and sassafras, boletes in fall.
And behind the close-shouldered houses
kitchen gardens with shell borders,
salt hay mulching kale and potatoes,
tomatoes reddening, a lilac tree
waving branches, this richness folded
into interstices, the firmness of objects.
I walk and the streets, the houses,
furl within me, mapped in cells, awakened,
contained and opening. The town
with its stories and structures, its history
and legends, is in me, as we are in our dreams
even as they are inside us.
It comes back to the harbor
which is always to be beyond,
to be ventured and to receive.
A depth, and a surface of light,
contained and limitless,
against which portal we are shades.
harbor
From the beginning this shelter,
the harbor cupping a depth
that was passage and return,
that was food and men's labor.
The tough boats that made a fleet:
strength it gave to the town, a being.
For hundreds of years the boats going out.
The town to serve them then,
to fit out, crew, supply, unload,
pack fish in the cold storage, gut and slice,
scales glittering in piles you wade through
in high boots, slick underfoot.
They were hard years, hard generations.
Run out to the bend when sails were spotted:
half-masted meant a man was lost.
What was lived here can't be bought,
but what was owned is taken,
what was built falls to strangers. It floods me,
filling, overfilling, this grief
a deepening darkening, overcome.
Still, blueberry, beach plum, cranberry,
bay and sassafras, boletes in fall.
And behind the close-shouldered houses
kitchen gardens with shell borders,
salt hay mulching kale and potatoes,
tomatoes reddening, a lilac tree
waving branches, this richness folded
into interstices, the firmness of objects.
I walk and the streets, the houses,
furl within me, mapped in cells, awakened,
contained and opening. The town
with its stories and structures, its history
and legends, is in me, as we are in our dreams
even as they are inside us.
It comes back to the harbor
which is always to be beyond,
to be ventured and to receive.
A depth, and a surface of light,
contained and limitless,
against which portal we are shades.
Cuprins
I. Come Now, Angel
II. The Back Shore
III. The Book of Paradise
IV. The Tenth Island
V. Crónica
VI. The Book of Men
VII. The Prophecy of Affliction
VIII. Histories
IX. The Book of Mystery
X. The Prophecy of the Dead
XI. Water of Night
XII. Boletes in September
Acknowledgments
II. The Back Shore
III. The Book of Paradise
IV. The Tenth Island
V. Crónica
VI. The Book of Men
VII. The Prophecy of Affliction
VIII. Histories
IX. The Book of Mystery
X. The Prophecy of the Dead
XI. Water of Night
XII. Boletes in September
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“This is a magnificent work, focused on the history of an all but sea-surrounded town. The poet [tells] stories through many voices, from the elevated language of creation myth and prophetic rebuke, to vivid, realistic barroom scenes, hapless and violent, mediated through a voice of personal account and self-accounting. . . . It is one poem with many poems (some of them in prose) carried through the passionate singing rhythm of these voices, becoming the one grand poem that is the book.”—David Ferry, author, Bewilderment, and winner, National Book Award in Poetry
“Provincetown is the locus of this ambitious, wide-ranging, and archetypal collection, which takes up various histories of migration and exile and reimagines them for our time. Terra Nova has the feeling of a biblical prophecy, a lost book that has washed up from the sea.”—Edward Hirsch, author, Gabriel: A Poem
“Provincetown is a place both mythic and mystical, and Cynthia Huntington is a someone who gets this right. The land’s end, the outermost places here, are never mere geography but the far reaches of history and psyche. Experience, however epic or quotidian, appears heightened in a phosphorescent shimmer from the wilding Atlantic. This cold fire pervades Huntington’s diction and rhythms, which press hard against the limits of what can be put into language. She quails at nothing, she excludes nothing, and in her deft hand, this cape’s furthest outpost becomes a vortex swallowing the world and time. Terra Nova sojourns everywhere and is peopled by multitudes—by fishermen and fishermen’s wives, the Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers, refugees, wanderers, prophets of the Old Testament, nomads of prehistory and more. It is impossible to catalog the dimensions of this book, and that is its magic and wonder. This is an astonishing achievement, a magnum opus. Open its covers and you may not surface for days.”—Frank X. Gaspar, author, Late Rapturous
Descriere
In this bold and ambitious book-length poem, National Book Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration—what it means to lose, seek, and find home in all its iterations—through a polyphonic work written in multiple voices, owing as much to Patti Smith and the Clash as it does to High Modernism.