Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven series—one of linked prose poems called “Another Letter to the Soul” and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal. The volume speaks to and questions the ancient concept of the soul and its contemporary manifestations, including the damaged soul, the American soul, and the blind, gagged soul of history.Melissa Kwasny does not define the soul in traditional religious terms, but in a shamanic, perhaps ecological sense, as the part of being that continues its existence after death. The poems in “Another Letter to the Soul” point inward, addressing the human soul directly, while the individual lined poems search outward, sensing the soul in the plants, animals, rocks, waters, and winds that surround us.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:295 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pacific Northwest Poetry Series
Antal sidor:96
Förlag:University of Washington Press
ISBN:9780295742441

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This is Melissa Kwasny’s sixth book of poems. Her previous collections include Pictograph, Reading Novalis in Montana, and The Nine Senses. She is also the author of Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. She has won both the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award and the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America.

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"In Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today, Kwasny explores [the soul] like she's a hundred Wallace Stevenses looking at a blackbird (if the blackbird was a soul) and the result is a book that gives ‘soul’ the kind of in-depth attention it's needed, in a way that feels fresh and specific and full. . . . This is a collection that butts up against the idea that the soul is a pure, untarnished entity fit only for some afterlife in a heaven away from earth. It's also a collection about human limitations. The soul portrayed here is beautiful and messy, and our perception of it can't really ever be separated from the bodies we live in."

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsThe Hide and Skin Handbook1. The Deer People2. Another Letter to the Soul3. The Blue Heron People4. Another Letter to the Soul5. The Hawk People6. Another Letter to the Soul7. The Creek People8. Another Letter to the SoulNotes and AcknowledgmentsAbout the Author