B/RDS - Béatrice Szymkowiak

B/RDS

Buch | Softcover
70 Seiten
2023
University of Utah Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-64769-115-8 (ISBN)
23,60 inkl. MwSt
Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.
B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours.

Prose poems written in the author’s own words and prompted by the erasure process are also interspersed throughout the collection. These migratory poems, like ripples, trace the link between past and present and reveal the human-nature disconnect at the root cause of environmental and social problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Along its five movements, B/RDS also explores how we can reimagine our relationship to environment through language within new frameworks of interconnectedness. Thus, as the collection resists the distinction between nature and culture on which traditional nature poetry relies, it also acts as an ecopoetic manifesto. It suggests that a critical, lyrical poetry could contribute to ecological awareness by singing humanity back within nature.

BÉatrice Szymkowiak is a French-American writer and scholar. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2017, and obtained a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2022. She is the author of RED ZONE (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a poetry chapbook, as well as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Contest. Her work also has appeared in Terrain.org, Portland Review, OmniVerse, Southern Humanities Review, and many others.

Foreword
Preface
[We want to touch the sky…]
B/RDS
Along Shallow & Grassy Shores
I
Around the Heavens
It Is Nothing but a Song
Viscera
Sunset Mingled in Ploughed Earth, Yields
The Trembling
Gnawings
The Night Is Pitch-Dark but We /
Re/sound
How Far South It May Be
The Latter Part of Autumn
II
American Co.
The Winged Lovers
A /complete History
Fierce Sticks & Stakes / Once Hunger
Spring Was the Thickness of a Dollar
How Bodies with Wings
Sans Doute l’Oiseau
The Instant They Are Caught, They Are Wont to Mute
Hem/locks
III
Confinement Notes
Our Small Attachments. An Ache
In the Interior
Spring along the Ridge
Wherever Sun Ends
Humanity Fills /our Hearts
Cleft
The Higher
Stones of Shrines. Oil Slick
Becalmed
IV
Decree of Shyness
The Natural History Society
The Only Authentic Account
A Prize! A Prize! A New American Fauna
Exhibit
Ma/rion/ette
Migrations Di/splayed as Sinew
As if Bewildered
Identified Trace Specimen
Papillae
V
Of Be/coming
Blades of Grass
Out of their Breasts / as if
We almost Touched Each Other
Notwithstanding
A/part
Tongues, a Discontinuity / Occurs
As Blossoms Fade
Whole. Our Ardent Song
To the Water That Carries Them Gently
CODA
The Remembrance of Thousands
Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Verlagsort Salt Lake City
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 1-64769-115-X / 164769115X
ISBN-13 978-1-64769-115-8 / 9781647691158
Zustand Neuware
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