"The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million; that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively. The body of work gathered here stands as an extraordinary lyric record of those e...

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1. Verfasser:	Graham, Jorie 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Manchester Carcanet 2022
Schlagworte:	American poetry / 21st century Women poets, American American poetry 2000-2099 Poetry
Zusammenfassung:	"The earliest of the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million; that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively. The body of work gathered here stands as an extraordinary lyric record of those eighteen calamitous years: a glittering, teeming Anthropocene journal, rife with hope and raw with loss, lush and sparse, hard to parse and hugely powerful to experience. Graham's poems are turned to face our planet's deep-time future, and their shadows are cast by the long light of the will-have-been. But they are made of more durable materials than granite and concrete, and their tasks are of record as well as warning: to preserve what it has felt like to be a human in these accelerated years when "the future / takes shape / too quickly", when we are entering "a time / beyond belief". They know, these poems, and what they tell is precise to their form... Sometimes they are made of ragged, hurting, hurtling, and body-fleeing language; other times they celebrate the sheer, shocking, heart-stopping gift of the given world, seeing light, tree, sea, skin, and star as a "whirling robe humming with firstness""--
Beschreibung:	"Carcanet Poetry"--Cover "Poetry Book Society Special Commendation"--Cover Collects four of author's previously published books of poetry
Beschreibung:	xix, 307 Seiten
ISBN:	9781800172937 1800172931