Enola Gay

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

Some devastation has struck the soul and the Earth alike, and in "Enola Gay", his second volume of poems, Mark Levine surveys the disaster. Here is a volume of poetry approaching Carolyn Forche's The Angel of History as a stark meditation on Blanchot's sense of writing as the 'desired, undesired torment which endures everything'. Levine engages the traditional resources of lyric poetry in an exploration of historical and cultural landscapes ravaged by imponderable events. Enola Gay's 'mission' can seem spiritual, imaginative, and militaristic as the speaker in these poems surveys marshes and fields and a land on the edge of disintegration. Levine sifts the psychological residue that accumulates in the wake of unspeakable acts and so negotiates that terrain between the banality of language and the need to stand witness and to speak.Levine's stunning second book, with its grave cultural implications and its surveillance of a distinctly postmodern malaise, offers multiple readings. Here are compact poems with uncanny power, rhythm, and a strange, formal beauty echoing and renewing the legacy of Wallace Stevens for a new era.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-04-11
Mått:140 x 210 x 8 mm
Vikt:136 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New California Poetry
Antal sidor:79
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520222601

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Mark Levine is author of Debt, Jorie Graham's selection for publication in the National Poetry Series in 1993. He has received a Whiting Writers Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. In 1994-1995 he was the Hodder Fellow in the Humanities at Princeton. He teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. As a contributor to The New Yorker and Outside, Levine has reported on cultural, environmental, and social issues on four continents.

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"Reading Mark Levine's Enola Gay is a near-religious experience... You could read contemporary American poetry for many years and not come across a work as distinctive as this." -- Seth Abramson Huffington Post

Innehållsförteckning

Then for the Seventh Night Eclipse, Eclipse Susan Fowler Horizon Combinations Jack and Jill Counting the Forests Lyric Hello Lyric The Response Place My Friend A Harvest Two Springs Ocean Lullaby Event Island Life Everybody Riddles of Flight Lyric Enola Gay The Holy Pail John Keats Lyric Unlike Graham Winter Occasional How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear By Edward Lear Forgetfulness A Focus on the Elemental Oven (Six Moments) New Song Jean Cocteau Moon Mistaken Chimney Song Light Years The Fixed Wing Elegy (Terence Freitas) Lyric Wedding Day