Wilder (eBook)
96 Seiten
Milkweed Editions (Verlag)
978-1-57131-995-1 (ISBN)
A prize-winning debut poetry collection touching on themes of nature, loss, and history. In Wilder—selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—Claire Wahmanholm maps an alien but unnervingly familiar world as it accelerates into cataclysm. Here refugees listen to relaxation tapes that create an Arcadia out of tires and bleach. Here the alphabet spells out disaster and devours children. Here plate tectonics birth a misery rift, spinning loved ones away from each other across an uncaring sea. And here the cosmos—and Cosmos, as Carl Sagan’s hopeful words are fissured by erasure—yawns wide.Wilder is grimly visceral but also darkly sly; it paints its world in shades of neon and rust, and its apocalypse in language that runs both sublime and matter-of-fact. “Some of us didn’t have lungs left,” writes Wahmanholm. “So when we lay beneath the loudspeaker sky—when we were told to pay attention to our breath—we had to improvise.” The result is a debut collection that both beguiles and wounds, whose sky is “black at noon, black in the afternoon.”Praise for Wilder “Full of wonder and bewilderment, cosmic vision and earthly pain.” —Rick Barot “A lyric and formally daring collection.” —Poets & Writers “Wahmanholm moves lyrically through an apocalyptic disaster in her stunning and disquieting debut. . . . Wahmanholm’s poems are studies in devastation and stark representations of the accompanying shock.” —Publishers Weekly “Wahmanholm’s careful curation of words and sounds cradle the reader. . . . The poems in Wilder are powerful and compelling, interested not only in confronting the rifts in our history and landscape, but connecting us to each other.” —Arkansas International
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Night Vision, winner of the 2017 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook competition. Her poems have appeared in Paperbag, PANK, Saltfront, Waxwing, Bennington Review, The Collapsar, Newfound, New Poetry from the Midwest 2017, 32 Poems, Best New Poets 2015, Memorious, The Journal, and Kenyon Review Online. Her second collection, Redmouth, is forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in 2019. She lives and teaches in the Twin Cities.
CONTENTS
Descent
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Advent
Afterimage
Aftersky
Afterbodies
Red Rover
Simon Says
B
The Meadow, the River
Breach
Where I Went Afterward
The Meadow, the Lake
How I Dreamed There
G
The Witch
D
Poem After All the Children Have Disappeared
State of Emergency
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[In a Flash of Light]
[We Grow Up Frozen]
[The Ocean Calls]
[We Had a Taste for Error]
[Men Wander among Us]
[An Alien General Collected Us]
[At the End]
[The Dark is Everywhere]
[The World is Very Distant]
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Beginning
The Jellyfish
Misery Rift
Still the Sea
No Stars
The Pit
Relaxation Tape
The Factory
Relaxation Tape
The Almanac
Fuse
Relaxation Tape
Beasts
The Carrion Flower
The Kittens
Bog Body
Reap
Relaxation Tape
The Last Animals
Night Vision
The Lodestars
Notes and Acknowledgments
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.11.2018 |
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Mitarbeit |
Ausgewählt von: Rick Barot |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-57131-995-6 / 1571319956 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-57131-995-1 / 9781571319951 |
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