The Blue Hour: Wisconsin Poetry Series
Autor Jennifer Whitakeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2016
Fairy tales both familiar and obscure create a threshold, and the The Blue Hour pulls us over it. With precise language and rich detail, these poems unflinchingly create an eerie world marked by abuse, asking readers not just to bear witness but to try to understand how we make meaning in the face of the meaningless violence.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299308643
ISBN-10: 0299308642
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series
ISBN-10: 0299308642
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Poetry Series
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Recenzii
“The Blue Hour casts a blue spell, using the tropes and gestures of traditional fairy tales—riddles, disguises, wishes, shape-shifting, entrapment, escape, and transformation—to trace a daughter’s experience of incestuous abuse. With language as sonically and somatically intricate as the subject she narrates, Whitaker looks unflinchingly at an ancient taboo and the infinite hour of its endurance.”—Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Vanitas, Rough
“Whitaker’s skills with sentence and sound, with spare yet suggestive language, with telling juxtapositions, with metaphor and misdirection, make the unbearable bearable just long enough that it can be seen, contained, and transcended. These are riveting poems, hard won, from a poet of exceptional talent.”—Jim Peterson, author of Original Face
“Like a banked fire stoked into a blaze, The Blue Hour contains the power to warm you up and burn you down. I am enthralled by the stunning grace of Jennifer Whitaker’s vision. A spectacular debut.”—Camille T. Dungy, author of Smith Blue
“Chronicles a daughter in danger, a girl trapped in the dark underbelly of fairy tales. Predators—fathers, wolves, witches, and their ghosts—drag us into the dark forest of sadism with no prince or woodsman in sight. Whitaker is a fearless poet whose subject is fear.”—Denise Duhamel, Brittingham Prize judge
“Whitaker’s debut collection wrenchingly captures an abusive parent-child relationship in a hardscrabble, desolate environment where, for instance, feral kittens fight off flies. . . . And though what follows is hard-bitten and relentless, with the sure knowledge that every twinkling gift has its price, Whitaker writes with a richness and variety that offers sustained reading throughout.”—Library Journal
“The Blue Hour is incendiary. These poems are white hot and unless handled with care—they will burn you.”—Today’s Book of Poetry
Notă biografică
Jennifer Whitaker is the director of the University Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and assistant poetry editor for storySouth. This is her first book.
Extras
Every night begins with my wish
as I’m gowned in fog on the lawn:
Man in the moon, be a prince—strike a match.
Burn out the stars in their dumb minuet.
Forget the clock; let it drone what it may.
I’ll stare until everyone shatters like glass.
—excerpt from “Cinderella as Wish That Comes True,” © The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
as I’m gowned in fog on the lawn:
Man in the moon, be a prince—strike a match.
Burn out the stars in their dumb minuet.
Forget the clock; let it drone what it may.
I’ll stare until everyone shatters like glass.
—excerpt from “Cinderella as Wish That Comes True,” © The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Last Poem about My Father
I.
The Invention of Childhood
Something He’d Do
The Look of It
Father as Barred Owl
Strange Sister
Story That Begins and Ends with Burning
Through the Vines
Habit
The Invitation
The Lesson
The Birth Premature
Mother as Blossoming Vine
False Season
In the Sick Room
Father as Map of the World
Father as Ribbon in My Hair
Rumpelstiltskin
The Gown
Story in Which the Daughter Waits for the Hunter to Return
Daughter as Collection of Words
Mount Vernon
Story That Begins with a Bat Falling Dead
Blue Hour
II.
Snow White as Apology from My Youth
Daughter as Painted Boy
Collusion
Cinderella as Wish That Comes True
Daughter as Sister in Many Layers
Story in Which the Daughter Briefly Encounters Providence
Rapunzel
Mother’s Foxes
Throat-Song
Story in Which We Scream at the Daughter to Stop
Aubade
Daughter as Pallid Bat in the Attic
Daughter as Pig in the House
Letter to My Father as Severed Goat Head
Letter to My Father as Month of August
What to Wear to a Father’s Funeral
Letter to My Father as Robin in the Field
Home
Fairgrounds
Father as Distant Boat
Father as Suit of Armor
In the Marriage Season
Letter to My Father as Theropod Exhibit
Letter to My Father in the Blue Hour
Notes
Last Poem about My Father
I.
The Invention of Childhood
Something He’d Do
The Look of It
Father as Barred Owl
Strange Sister
Story That Begins and Ends with Burning
Through the Vines
Habit
The Invitation
The Lesson
The Birth Premature
Mother as Blossoming Vine
False Season
In the Sick Room
Father as Map of the World
Father as Ribbon in My Hair
Rumpelstiltskin
The Gown
Story in Which the Daughter Waits for the Hunter to Return
Daughter as Collection of Words
Mount Vernon
Story That Begins with a Bat Falling Dead
Blue Hour
II.
Snow White as Apology from My Youth
Daughter as Painted Boy
Collusion
Cinderella as Wish That Comes True
Daughter as Sister in Many Layers
Story in Which the Daughter Briefly Encounters Providence
Rapunzel
Mother’s Foxes
Throat-Song
Story in Which We Scream at the Daughter to Stop
Aubade
Daughter as Pallid Bat in the Attic
Daughter as Pig in the House
Letter to My Father as Severed Goat Head
Letter to My Father as Month of August
What to Wear to a Father’s Funeral
Letter to My Father as Robin in the Field
Home
Fairgrounds
Father as Distant Boat
Father as Suit of Armor
In the Marriage Season
Letter to My Father as Theropod Exhibit
Letter to My Father in the Blue Hour
Notes
Descriere
These spare and unflinching poems cast a blue spell, revealing a girl trapped in the dark underbelly of incest, with no fairy-tale rescuer in sight.