What Water Knows: Poems
Autor Jacqueline Jones LaMonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2021
Jacqueline Jones LaMon delivers a stunning third collection that shows the elements of life that both unite us and create our greatest distances. What Water Knows transports the reader from drought to drowning, from the transatlantic Middle Passage to the breaking of water, from water wielded as a weapon to used as a reward. LaMon offers a labyrinth to understanding how we are all connected—through vibrant, searing images depicting the core of racism, betrayal, addiction, loss, climate change, and the ever-changing world in which we live.
LaMon’s skillful embodiment of character and her signature use of personae invite the reader to experience the unfathomable. Prepare to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Prepare to feel the force of a fire hose on your bare legs. Prepare to experience what happens when greed gets in the way of reason. What Water Knows is a canonical poetic achievement that will remind us of what it means to be human in a world that often forgets.
LaMon’s skillful embodiment of character and her signature use of personae invite the reader to experience the unfathomable. Prepare to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Prepare to feel the force of a fire hose on your bare legs. Prepare to experience what happens when greed gets in the way of reason. What Water Knows is a canonical poetic achievement that will remind us of what it means to be human in a world that often forgets.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810143845
ISBN-10: 0810143844
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
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ISBN-10: 0810143844
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Triquarterly
Notă biografică
JACQUELINE JONES LAMON is the author of two award‑winning collections of poetry, Last Seen and Gravity, U.S.A., as well as a novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me. Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Adelphi University, she has served as president of the Cave Canem Foundation.
Cuprins
I: This Fragile, Resilient Life
No One Eats Icicles Anymore
Her Silk Scarf Was Blood-Soaked by I-495
Travelogue
What Happens When a Brother Flees
Up the River
“Governor Snyder Drinks Flint Water”
Pipeline
Lemonade
Mob
Six
Niagara
Ownership
What Is Human, or Culture, or Left Hanging in the Air
All That We Need to Be Happy
On Watch for the Spontaneous
The Garonne River Shifts Her Direction
Classification Is the Beginning of Our Greatest Understanding
Nine to the Limit
Prodigal
The Browning
II: The Open, Empty Mouth
We Could Walk into the Waters, or Leave Life as It Seems
Thermostat
This Wholeness, Beyond Everything We Know
With a View of the Water from Stable, Cleared Ground
Disregarding the Alarm
The Night Before Euthanasia
What We Wear to Meet the Water
Cleansing My Mother’s Cold Body
The Merchant Seaman’s Wife
Rockaway
And All the Rest Will Have Washed Away
Quiet on the Set
Still Life
Polar Vortex
My Body Speaks of Hatred
Water, Water Everywhere, But How Am I to Drink?
Martini
III: The Promise of Relief
The Latitude, The Longitude, and a Third Axis Called Time
Socratic
We Put So Much Faith in the Power of Doors
Cruise to Nowhere
Bathwater
Breaking & Entering
Ornithology
Aftermath
Holding
Boarding the Six Train at Brooklyn Bridge
No Matter What the Incline, The River Around Us Still Flows
Primate
The Death and the Dying, A Million Times Over
It Is Happy Hour, Somewhere
There Are Some Things We Can’t Create in Life
There are Sixty-Five Steps Between There and Here
The Only Time We Think of It Is When It’s No Longer There
Bay One
Currency
What To Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel
And Tomorrow, We Learn to Name the Air
Skully
In the Beginning
Commitment
That Which We Reach for When Given the Chance
Acknowledgements
No One Eats Icicles Anymore
Her Silk Scarf Was Blood-Soaked by I-495
Travelogue
What Happens When a Brother Flees
Up the River
“Governor Snyder Drinks Flint Water”
Pipeline
Lemonade
Mob
Six
Niagara
Ownership
What Is Human, or Culture, or Left Hanging in the Air
All That We Need to Be Happy
On Watch for the Spontaneous
The Garonne River Shifts Her Direction
Classification Is the Beginning of Our Greatest Understanding
Nine to the Limit
Prodigal
The Browning
II: The Open, Empty Mouth
We Could Walk into the Waters, or Leave Life as It Seems
Thermostat
This Wholeness, Beyond Everything We Know
With a View of the Water from Stable, Cleared Ground
Disregarding the Alarm
The Night Before Euthanasia
What We Wear to Meet the Water
Cleansing My Mother’s Cold Body
The Merchant Seaman’s Wife
Rockaway
And All the Rest Will Have Washed Away
Quiet on the Set
Still Life
Polar Vortex
My Body Speaks of Hatred
Water, Water Everywhere, But How Am I to Drink?
Martini
III: The Promise of Relief
The Latitude, The Longitude, and a Third Axis Called Time
Socratic
We Put So Much Faith in the Power of Doors
Cruise to Nowhere
Bathwater
Breaking & Entering
Ornithology
Aftermath
Holding
Boarding the Six Train at Brooklyn Bridge
No Matter What the Incline, The River Around Us Still Flows
Primate
The Death and the Dying, A Million Times Over
It Is Happy Hour, Somewhere
There Are Some Things We Can’t Create in Life
There are Sixty-Five Steps Between There and Here
The Only Time We Think of It Is When It’s No Longer There
Bay One
Currency
What To Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel
And Tomorrow, We Learn to Name the Air
Skully
In the Beginning
Commitment
That Which We Reach for When Given the Chance
Acknowledgements
Descriere
Jacqueline Jones LaMon’s stunning third collection shows the elements of life that unite us—and that separate us most profoundly. What Water Knows transports the reader from drought to drowning, from the transatlantic Middle Passage to the breaking of water.