Ziggurat: Phoenix Poets
Autor Peter Balakianen Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2011
In his first book of poems since his highly acclaimed June-tree, Peter Balakian continues to define himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with catastrophe and trauma, many of Balakian’s new poems wrestle with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11.
Whether reliving the building of the World Trade Towers in the inventive forty-three-section poem that anchors the book, walking the ruins of the Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, meditating on Andy Warhol’s silk screens, or considering the confluence of music, language, and memory, Balakian continues his meditations on history, as well as on the harshness and beauty of contemporary life, that his readers have enjoyed over the years. In sensual, layered, and sometimes elliptical language, Balakian in Ziggurat explores absence, war, love, and art in a new age of American uncertainty.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226035666
ISBN-10: 0226035662
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Phoenix Poets
ISBN-10: 0226035662
Pagini: 88
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Phoenix Poets
Notă biografică
Peter Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Colgate University. He is the author of five books of poems and three prose works, including The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, a New York Times best seller; and Black Dog of Fate, a memoir.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
One
Going to Zero
Warhol / Madison Ave. / 9-11
World Trade Center / Mail Runner / ’71
Warhol / Blue Jackie
World Trade Center / Mail Runner / ’73
Warhol / Electric Chair / ’63
World Trade Center / Black Holes / ’74
Warhol / Race Riot / ’63
Elevator, Midtown, ’74
Two
A-Train / Ziggurat / Elegy
Three
Three Decades
Reading Dickinson / Summer ’68
Grant’s Tomb
Self-Portrait with Bird
The Alley
Early Spring
Blue Room
9 /11, Emily Dickinson
Sarajevo
Notes
One
Going to Zero
Warhol / Madison Ave. / 9-11
World Trade Center / Mail Runner / ’71
Warhol / Blue Jackie
World Trade Center / Mail Runner / ’73
Warhol / Electric Chair / ’63
World Trade Center / Black Holes / ’74
Warhol / Race Riot / ’63
Elevator, Midtown, ’74
Two
A-Train / Ziggurat / Elegy
Three
Three Decades
Reading Dickinson / Summer ’68
Grant’s Tomb
Self-Portrait with Bird
The Alley
Early Spring
Blue Room
9 /11, Emily Dickinson
Sarajevo
Notes
Recenzii
"Dark as Balakian's poems sometimes are, Ziggurat shines with brilliant insight, courage, and exceptional artistry. This is an important, rewarding book."
“Balakian’s poems create a world sustained by the power of associations, in which borders get thinned out and lives that seem unconnected flow on each other. Even as he focuses on his relationship with the world, he avoids indulging in monolog, instead using reportorial diction to sketch flashes of scenes that seem as if they are taken by cameras with cracked lenses. VERDICT Aesthetically rich and engaging; recommended for all serious poetry readers."
“With characteristic originality, Balakian finds his echoing motif in the construction of the first great skyscraper, the Ziggurat at Ur, and this gives his epic poem, ‘A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy,’ a historical depth I have found nowhere else in American poetry in recent years. What Balakian has achieved here is a brilliant assimilation of the historical, philosophical, political, and psychological.”
“With a historical precision not often seen in contemporary American poetry, Ziggurat balances between the pain and strength that come with recollection.”
“Ziggurat ingests calamity and dissolves it into an exhilarating rhythm and image, pushing the language until it feels like it’s breaking into something new. This is how idioms change, advance. Balakian renders scenes and at the same time enacts the sensibility being breached and affected—9/11 is just shorthand for our new magnitudes of violence and dissociation. The frames of contemporary life, and our recent history, fit together because they have been brought to account in the self of the poet. The work aims to reveal the human capacity to integrate and, after hard passage, transcend.”
"This is very urban poetry, written in free verse but with an unbreakable sentence rhythm. . . . Though Balakian's poems are quickly comprehensible, there is a deeper meaning which appears when we realize that they are about law disappearing, to be replaced by Chaos."
"Whether as a poet, historian, or memoirist, Balakian has consistently cast himself as the modern observer, the consummate 'witness,' a New Jersey native of Armenian descent, straddling the line between cultures and ages, translating that experience into words. Ziggurat redefines that act of bearing witness as an act of retrospection in its deepest sense, a looking back that is as much about the experience of fractured consciousness as it is about what it observes."—Harvard Review
“[Balakian] is a poet who lives to be ‘in the thick of the material,’ whether it’s the pile of frightening historical facts he excavates or the sound and texture of the phrases he lovingly chisels out. . . . [Ziggurat] has emotional depth, structural coherence, and historical range.”
"The power of the poems in Ziggurat is in the range of experiences and knowledge they respond to, the linguistic energies deployed and the skill with which the narrative is layered, so that it resonates not only as historical commentary, but with pertinence to the present moment."