Antillia
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3608-1 (ISBN)
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to exist. The ghosts that haunt this collection are phantom islands, moon lakes, lasers used to clean the caryatids at the Acropolis, earlier versions of the self, suicides, a madam from the Old West, petroleum, snapdragons, pets, ice apples, Casper, and a “resident ghost” who makes the domestic realm of “the cradle and the bed” uninhabitable. The ghosts are sons, fathers “asleep in front of the TV,” and a variety of exes—“lost boys” with names like The Texan and Mr. No More Cowboy Hat whom Henrietta Goodman treats with snarky wit but also with grief, guilt, and love.
Although memories pervade this collection, these poems also look forward and outward into a world where social inequality and environmental disaster meet the possibility of metamorphosis.
Henrietta Goodman is an assistant professor of English at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. She is the author of All That Held Us, Hungry Moon, and Take What You Want.
Acknowledgements
1
The Puppy and Kitten Channel
What Are We Going to Turn Into?
Gretel Returns
Ice Apples
Asked to Imagine the Death of My Son
Self-Portrait, 1921, Alberto Giacometti
Lake of Delight
Self-Portrait Playing Tennis
Self-Portrait with Emergency Landing
Futures
The Man behind the Curtain
Lake of Winter (Berryman)
Self-Portrait as a Stranger
Caryatids
I Want to Be a Door
Opossum of the Month
Sea of Desire
Free Association
Antillia
Lake of Death
Postcolonial Melancholia
Red-Winged Blackbirds
2
I Don’t Require Durability in a Swan
3
When Frankenstein Chased His Creature across the Ice
The Men at Snowbowl Teaching Their Daughters to Ski
The Petroleum Club
Seahorse
Organizational Systems
Self-Portrait in the Blackfoot
Self-Portrait with Northern Lights
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (Marc Chagall, 1912)
Lake of Time
Letter from the Ant Queen
The Repetitive Bird
Self-Portrait on Valentine’s Day
Pointillist Self-Portrait
Mr. No More Cowboy Hat
Letter from the Queen of the Crows
Remember What You Said About Women
Lake of Hope
Resident Ghost
The Texan
Self-Portrait in Downtown Missoula
Namaste
Source Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3608-4 / 1496236084 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3608-1 / 9781496236081 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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