Altars of Spine and Fraction - Nicholas Molbert

Altars of Spine and Fraction

Poems
Buch | Softcover
80 Seiten
2024
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4762-1 (ISBN)
22,35 inkl. MwSt
A debut poetry collection set in and around Louisiana’s fishing village of Cocodrie. This collection follows its protagonist through the joys and dangers of childhood on the rural Gulf Coast, through familial loss, and into adulthood. Molbert interrogates how nostalgia is most often enjoyed by those with the privilege to reject or indulge it.
A debut poetry collection set in and around Louisiana’s fishing village of CocodrieAltars of Spine and Fraction follows its protagonist through the joys and dangers of childhood on the rural Gulf Coast, through familial loss, and into adulthood. Refusing to romanticize what has been lost, Molbert instead interrogates how nostalgia is most often enjoyed by those with the privilege to reject or indulge it.

Violent hurricanes sweep across the landscapes of the poems, and Molbert probes the class inequalities that these climate crises lay bare. Moving from outdoor rural spaces in its first half to indoor domestic spaces in its second half, the collection explores family history, generational trauma, and the toxic masculinity that is shouldered by boys raised in the Deep South.

Nicholas Molbert was born and raised on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and now lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of the chapbooks Goodness Gracious and Cocodrie Elegy. 

Scarlet Harvest
 
The Hurricanes Explain Their Aesthetic
When I Think of Firmament
Overture
Louisiana Birth
Toward Likeness: Morning
Parable of Baiting
Small Bodies
Covenant with Knives
Parables of Cutting
My Swiss Army Tinker Was Confused as I Was at Nine
I Could Do It
 
What Now to Praise
 
The Hurricanes Address the Poet
The Society
Box
Epistemology in Retrospect
Two for the Boy
Drill, 2001
The Story of Bayou DuLarge
Novena
The Boy Learns Funeral Etiquette
He Didn’t So Much Die
 
Voice, at Its Bones, Is Friction
 
Line
On Showing You My Hometown for the First Time
O
Readying Dinner
On This Side of Slumber
Comment on “Louisiana Birth”
Triptych on a Name
 
Knotted Impossibly with Translucent Line
 
Pelican
On the Canal
Cuplicking
What We Are Given and What We Make of It
But if You Have Me Last
My Theory of Everything
 
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Evanston
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Reisen Bildbände
ISBN-10 0-8101-4762-9 / 0810147629
ISBN-13 978-0-8101-4762-1 / 9780810147621
Zustand Neuware
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