The Mouth of Earth: Poems: Test Site Poetry Series
Autor Sarah P. Strongen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 oct 2020 – vârsta ani
The Mouth of Earth serves as both a survival guide for those seeking connection with our planet and one another as well as a compassionate tribute to what we have lost or are losing—the human consequences of such destruction in a time of climate crisis and lost connectivity. Strong’s powerful poems offer us, if not consolation, at least a way toward comprehension in an age of loss, revealing both our ongoing denial of our planet’s fragility and the compelling urgency of our hunger for connection with all life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781948908849
ISBN-10: 1948908840
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 1 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Nevada Press
Colecția University of Nevada Press
Seria Test Site Poetry Series
ISBN-10: 1948908840
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 1 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Nevada Press
Colecția University of Nevada Press
Seria Test Site Poetry Series
Recenzii
“There is a message, febrile but terribly lucid, urgent but entirely mindful in The Mouth of Earth. Ultimately, by means of a nuance indistinguishable from hope, the message becomes music. Here is a book of uncanny calm in an era of panic. Here is substance and renewal.”
—Donald Revell, author of The English Boat
“Sarah P. Strong’s latest collection The Mouth of Earth is as wise as it is candid, offering deftly woven lyrical gifts to the reader even as it reminds us of what we’ve done to the earth. These poems like divining rods find healing waters in the dust bowls of our toughest landscapes, intertwining parenthood, history, the body, and contemporary ecological and political concerns—as Strong writes, “The eye thirsts for rest, the blood for salt, the tongue / for fresh water.” These poems are at once tender and incisive; they cut straight to the heart.”
—Jennifer Givhan, author of Rosa’s Einstein and Girl with Death Mask
“People often say that a book is ahead of its time, and Strong’s book may be such a book. Strong’s book is visionary, offering a vision of sympathy for the earth and its inhabitants that is sadly lacking in our current political climate.”
—Claudia Keelan, Barrick Distinguished Scholar at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sarah P. Strong is a nimble explorer of visible and invisible boundaries, and each of their poems is part of a quest toward wonder and re-envisioning, a quest to go beyond, as the best poems do, the “edge of thinking.”
—Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine, winner of the National Book Award
This dynamic, multi-dimensional and supple collection engages with historic patterns of struggle, privilege, blindness, and above all, empathy. The themes of environmental ruin and the effect and plight of humans on this planet feel urgent rather than gloomy in these poems, a feat Strong pulls off by getting past and present and disparate places and experiences to resonate and chime. There’s something idealistic in this, an alertness and interconnectedness that reads in a sense as hope. The Mouth of Earth is impressive work—coherent and varied, thoughtful and full of lovely things.
—Daisy Fried, author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Ecological in its concern and wisely tender in regard to the people and history who brought the planet to such an endangered state . . . Sarah Strong’s book is driven by their love of the earth and wish to understand how and why our civilization has found itself at this critically dangerous juncture.
—Sasha Steensen, author of House of Deer: Poems and professor of English at Colorado State University
—Donald Revell, author of The English Boat
“Sarah P. Strong’s latest collection The Mouth of Earth is as wise as it is candid, offering deftly woven lyrical gifts to the reader even as it reminds us of what we’ve done to the earth. These poems like divining rods find healing waters in the dust bowls of our toughest landscapes, intertwining parenthood, history, the body, and contemporary ecological and political concerns—as Strong writes, “The eye thirsts for rest, the blood for salt, the tongue / for fresh water.” These poems are at once tender and incisive; they cut straight to the heart.”
—Jennifer Givhan, author of Rosa’s Einstein and Girl with Death Mask
“People often say that a book is ahead of its time, and Strong’s book may be such a book. Strong’s book is visionary, offering a vision of sympathy for the earth and its inhabitants that is sadly lacking in our current political climate.”
—Claudia Keelan, Barrick Distinguished Scholar at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sarah P. Strong is a nimble explorer of visible and invisible boundaries, and each of their poems is part of a quest toward wonder and re-envisioning, a quest to go beyond, as the best poems do, the “edge of thinking.”
—Mary Szybist, author of Incarnadine, winner of the National Book Award
This dynamic, multi-dimensional and supple collection engages with historic patterns of struggle, privilege, blindness, and above all, empathy. The themes of environmental ruin and the effect and plight of humans on this planet feel urgent rather than gloomy in these poems, a feat Strong pulls off by getting past and present and disparate places and experiences to resonate and chime. There’s something idealistic in this, an alertness and interconnectedness that reads in a sense as hope. The Mouth of Earth is impressive work—coherent and varied, thoughtful and full of lovely things.
—Daisy Fried, author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Ecological in its concern and wisely tender in regard to the people and history who brought the planet to such an endangered state . . . Sarah Strong’s book is driven by their love of the earth and wish to understand how and why our civilization has found itself at this critically dangerous juncture.
—Sasha Steensen, author of House of Deer: Poems and professor of English at Colorado State University
Notă biografică
Sarah P. Strong is the author of Tour of the Breath Gallery: Poems, and two novels, The Fainting Room and Burning the Sea. Their work has appeared widely, including in The Nation, Poetry Daily, Cimarron Review, The SouthwestReview, The Southern Review, Verse Daily, and The Sun. They live near New Haven, Connecticut.
Extras
Graveside
As we throw flowers
down the mouth of earth
a bee rises and stings my girl
beside her eye. Now
two kinds of tears
and two deaths here:
the dying bee
a curled lantern
to light your way to dirt
and you—
is it return enough
to become
a breath of wind
across the buzzing garden
driving perfume
from the throat of
a belled flower
in the dusk
As we throw flowers
down the mouth of earth
a bee rises and stings my girl
beside her eye. Now
two kinds of tears
and two deaths here:
the dying bee
a curled lantern
to light your way to dirt
and you—
is it return enough
to become
a breath of wind
across the buzzing garden
driving perfume
from the throat of
a belled flower
in the dusk
Cuprins
Contents
PART I.
Fire Burns Grass | 3
Mobile | 4
Border | 6
On the Road to California | 7
Phone Call After a Fire | 8
Stalin | 9
Turning On the Lights | 11
Study Guide | 12
Notes from Detroit | 13
Diner | 15
Deus ex Machina | 17
Poolside | 18
The Apollos | 19
At the End of Brooklyn | 20
A Story | 21
PART II.
Dust | 25
Buffalo Grass | 25
Hattie Clemons, farmer | 26
Virgil T. Payne, veteran and farmer | 27
Eliza Barnett, farmer | 28
Eugene Samples, pastor | 29
Margaret Tsosie, shepherd | 30
Art MacAdams, fisherman | 31
Lula Bowen, housewife and Sunday school teacher | 32
Joe Martin, bartender | 33
Earl Owens, sharecropper | 34
Jesse Prather, farmer | 35
Azzie Morton, sixth grader | 36
Jennifer Smith-Ewing, museum curator | 37
PART III.
Graveside | 41
When My Daughter Builds with Blocks | 42
Such Fertile Land | 43
1. Janelle Stevens, home health aide, Oklahoma | 43
2. Consuelo Ramos Garza, farmworker, California | 44
3. In an arroyo, western Nevada | 45
A Word from Our Raindrop | 46
Pastoral at the March | 47
On Not Listening | 49
As the Days Turn Shorter | 50
The Winter We Lost Antarctica | 51
With the Floor Swept | 52
Footnote | 53
The Map | 54
Sunflowers | 55
At Midnight | 56
After This, Earth | 57
Anthropocene Birthday | 58
Acknowledgments | 59
Notes | 61
About the Author | 63
PART I.
Fire Burns Grass | 3
Mobile | 4
Border | 6
On the Road to California | 7
Phone Call After a Fire | 8
Stalin | 9
Turning On the Lights | 11
Study Guide | 12
Notes from Detroit | 13
Diner | 15
Deus ex Machina | 17
Poolside | 18
The Apollos | 19
At the End of Brooklyn | 20
A Story | 21
PART II.
Dust | 25
Buffalo Grass | 25
Hattie Clemons, farmer | 26
Virgil T. Payne, veteran and farmer | 27
Eliza Barnett, farmer | 28
Eugene Samples, pastor | 29
Margaret Tsosie, shepherd | 30
Art MacAdams, fisherman | 31
Lula Bowen, housewife and Sunday school teacher | 32
Joe Martin, bartender | 33
Earl Owens, sharecropper | 34
Jesse Prather, farmer | 35
Azzie Morton, sixth grader | 36
Jennifer Smith-Ewing, museum curator | 37
PART III.
Graveside | 41
When My Daughter Builds with Blocks | 42
Such Fertile Land | 43
1. Janelle Stevens, home health aide, Oklahoma | 43
2. Consuelo Ramos Garza, farmworker, California | 44
3. In an arroyo, western Nevada | 45
A Word from Our Raindrop | 46
Pastoral at the March | 47
On Not Listening | 49
As the Days Turn Shorter | 50
The Winter We Lost Antarctica | 51
With the Floor Swept | 52
Footnote | 53
The Map | 54
Sunflowers | 55
At Midnight | 56
After This, Earth | 57
Anthropocene Birthday | 58
Acknowledgments | 59
Notes | 61
About the Author | 63
Descriere
Wry, compassionate, and deftly observed, the poems in The Mouth of Earth contemplate how we might live wisely in the midst of a planetary change we barely comprehend. This vivid, compelling book is a powerful contribution to environmental literature of the 21st century, and a survival guide for those seeking connection to our planet and one another in the age of climate crisis.