Mirrormaker (eBook)
96 Seiten
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-57131-948-7 (ISBN)
The author of The Stuntman melds myths ancient and contemporary among the raspberries, wolves, and taconite mines of Minnesota’s Iron Range. Songwriter and poet Brian Laidlaw follows up The Stuntman with another collection that fuses the stories of two fabled couples: the mythical Narcissus and Echo, and Bob Dylan and Echo Star Helstrom, subject of the song “Girl from the North Country.” But where The Stuntman focused on Narcissus, The Mirrormaker takes its primary inspiration from Echo, drawing on ecocritical readings of American history and interrogating the masculine logic of resource extraction. In these poems, Laidlaw explores themes of history and celebrity, love and longing, myth and meaning, in a landscape both ravaged and redemptive. He pits romantic obsession against self-obsession—”The first time I saw the moon / I thought it was my idea” —and asks whether a meaningful distinction can ever be drawn between the two. These themes are explored further in a companion song suite, written by Laidlaw and recorded with a longtime collaborator from the Iron Range, that accompanies this book via download. Sharp, searching, and ecstatically musical, The Mirrormaker is a genre-expanding exploration of boom and bust—in mining economies and in young love. “Laidlaw is a futuristic country poet-singer in the other side of the century’s mirror, where consumption, celebritifying, and commodification rule as the earth rots from the inside out . . . living proof that the bard is still with us.” —Gillian Conoley
Brian Laidlaw is the author of The Stuntman. Widely published in journals and anthologies, he has had poems in New American Writing, Iowa Review, FIELD, and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral; lyrics in American Songwriter magazine; and a songwriting credit on the Grammy Award-winning album Can You Canoe? by the Okee Dokee Brothers. An accomplished musician, he has toured widely in the United States and Europe, and his most recent album is Amoratorium from Paper Darts Press. A graduate of the University of Minnesota's MFA program in poetry, Laidlaw has taught songwriting at McNally Smith College of Music and is now pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of Denver.
Contents
I.
Echo’s Ailments
Hatches
Iron Ironworker
Twin Brothers Drowning in a Flooded Ore Pit
Landlocked Leave
The Sparrows
Medicine Cabinet Inventory
The Dinosaurs
Echo’s Impressions
Upstate Mothers
Playtime Empire
The Golden Rule of Copyright
Dark Sides
II.
Echo’s Theory
Holster, Upholster
Dead Pony Recapitulation
Fractal
Chevron
They Found a Wolf
Echo’s Prom
No Anemics
Anechoic
III.
Echo’s Diagnosis
Returning to the Sycamore
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
Echo’s Prognosis
Assumption Hall
Prelude
Song
[I will make a space for you]
Don't Go
Canopy Fire
The Farrier’s File
[I am laughing convulsively]
Cherry Bomb
Assay
Echo’s Halloween
Blood Orange
Echo’s Dreams
If Earth
Epilogue
[The place I love is burning]
Acknowledgments
Liner Notes
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.10.2018 |
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Verlagsort | Minneapolis |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Schlagworte | boom and bust • Greek Mythology • iron range • Midwest • Mining • Minnesota • music • Songwriting |
ISBN-10 | 1-57131-948-4 / 1571319484 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-57131-948-7 / 9781571319487 |
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