Ark Hive (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
210
Utgivningsdatum
2019-03-04
Förlag
Operating System
Illustrationer
200 Illustrations
Dimensioner
260 x 168 x 14 mm
Vikt
486 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
4465:Standard Color 6.625 x 10.25 in or 260 x 168 mm Perfect Bound on Standard 70 White w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781946031471

Ark Hive

Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-03-04
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Exploring a tangled, unsettled love for place amid the landscape, cultures, and social and ecological crises of South Louisiana, ARK HIVE seeks amid the ruins for answers—what does it mean to be here, now? Following the ley-lines carved out in the streets and bayous of a rapidly eroding landscape, this collection refuses stability, confident of only the riddle and the manifold voices activating it. Reed’s formal hybridity juxtaposes hand-made maps, collaged language, and altered documents with lyrics and lyric essays: “fragments [from] journals, photographs, memory, archives—time capsule of a disintegrating world.” ARK HIVE bears its loves and dead along the current of the work’s own profligate vegetative urge—accretions of history and immersion, saturations of grief and delight. Tender and monumental, a teeming hive of voices, ARK HIVE returns an extraordinary, vanishing world to the center of our attention.

"There are locations—like Hawai’i, like Louisiana—where cultures are unique to the place, and outsiders are made to know themselves from insiders. As a poet familiar with issues of appropriation and theft, Marthe Reed asked herself how a Californian who had lived in Providence and Perth, could write about Louisiana, a place she loved over her many years of living in Lafayette. “Writing Louisiana, outsider-inside, poles of affection and alienation push and pull against me.” Her answer was to piece together an archive, and to write an epic from its documents: photographs, maps, names of birds, travel journals, histories, languages. What ultimately brings this material to life are the heart-lyrics stitched through the whole: from “threnody”: “I keep the contents of my heart / stacked in wet clay / heavy with downpour,” where “behind the grate the small / eyes of an armadillo / muted reek / of urine and feces[.]” The threnody she wrote was for a beautiful, fraught, and fragile place. It grieves me to write my paragraph in the past tense. Shortly before she died she told me, “We’re all going to die and no one will remember us; it’s ok.” We are here to remember her and this ravishing, important, necessary work." --Susan M. Schultz
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“marthe reed’s ecological long poem Ark Hive is a tour de force, a towering work in the field of documentary poetics that both sounds the alarm with sonic brilliance and subverts its own monumentality through the interrogation of place. Ark Hive enacts on a formal level the trembling prairie of South Louisiana and so unfolds in a constant state of oscillation: between prose and poetry, fact and uncertainty, the lyric and the visual, English and French, French and Atakapa-Ishak, and, most of all, between celebration of and elegy for the “green bottomland forest, green coastal seas, green marsh grass—prairie tremblant—shifting in the wet.” In an extraordinary and personal meditation on one of the most fractured and ecologically vulnerable regions in the known world, Reed writes as an insider-outsider of the umwelt where she lived for eleven years: “Here and not here, what to make of this place called home?” Through arduous research, oral histories, and even hand-drawn maps, Ark Hive leaves prairie-wide space for the reader to truly consider and understand the impact of racism, corporate malfeasance, and the widening delta of chemical spills on this place and the people who live here. Ark Hive asks us whether we can survive ourselves—our flooding, our oil industry—and if a new sociality, a new way of being withothers, as encapsulated by this book, may help ensure the survival of species, ourselves included.” - Henk Rossouw



"Here. Now. Live. Marthe Reed’s intimate engagement with South Louisiana will moor you to wherever you find yourself. An “act of memory and affection,” ARK HIVE teaches us how to attend to place. “Following the ley-lines carved out in the streets and bayous of a rapidly eroding landscape, this collection refuses stability, confident of the only riddle and the manifold voices activating it.” Reed’s hive is a choral fugue of over 85 voices: jazz legends, FEMA officials, fishermen, botanists, bakers, executives, imprisoned citizens, literary icons—neighbors all—knit multiple languages into an exquisite sampler of contemporary poetics. Lush with flora, hand-made maps, collaged language and altered documents sing resiliency; this “palimpsest of deluge and silt” flourishes amid debacles—Katrina, BP oil spill, and Texas Brine. A spine of questions borrowed from Bhanu Kapil (the how-what-when of bodily love-n-fear) sutures readers into Reed’s tender, monumental dance: “the band is already playing step, slow-quick, quick.” Mesmerizing. It is as if she never left Louisiana, as if she never left us."—Lori Anderson Moseman

 



 



 



Övrig information

ARK HIVE is Marthe Reed's sixth book. Previous titles include: 'Nights Reading' (Lavender Ink, 2014); 'Pleth,' with j hastain (Unlikely Books, 2013); '(em)bodied bliss' (Moria Books, 2013); 'Gaze' (Black Radish Books, 2010); and 'Tender Box, A Wunderkammer' (Lavender Ink, 2007). She is also author of six chapbooks, including a collaborative chapbook, 'thrown,' featuring text by j hastain with Reed's collages, which won the 2013 Smoking Glue Gun contest (2016). Her poetry was published inBAX2014, New American Writing, Golden Handcuffs Review, Entropy, New Orleans Review, Jacket2, Fairy Tale Review, Exquisite Corpse, The Volta, and The Offending Adam, among others. Her poetry reviews have appeared in Jacket2, Galatea Ressurrects, Openned, Cut Bank, New Pages, The Rumpus and Rain Taxi. Marthe was co-publisher and managing editor for Black Radish Books. This book is published in memoriam -- Marthe passed away suddenly in the Spring of 2018.

Innehållsförteckning

15 - here and not

once

21 - under pressure of water

22 - Reponds: Who was responsible for the suffering of your mother?

23 - Displacements/Deformation: Sunrise People

25 - Left behind

27 - Ile Copal Sugarcane

29 - Reponds: Where do you come from?

31 - Displacements/Deformation: Sunrise People (2)

32 - topos: an ode

33 - Coulee

34 - Displacements/Deformation: Sunrise People (3)

35 - Water and history (1)

38 - Displacements/Deformation: Sunrise People (4)

39 - water

41 - Reponds: Who are you and whom do you love?

afore

48 - reponds: how did you arrive?

49 - Ode: negotiation with place

51 - ’Tit Ben

52 - When the waters recede

53 - Land and water

56 - threnody

57 - Reponds: What is the shape of your body

58 - Take Me To The River

59 - Reponds: How did you arrive? (2)

60 - Flora

61 - Reponds: What do you remember about the earth?

53 - Reponds: What this means

54 - what Texaco used: Jimmi Martin

thereupon

70 - lapse :: a city

72 - Plaquemine Aquifer

75 - Report Reponds: What this means (2)

76 - current of geography

77 - Myrtle Grove Trailer Park

79 - Reponds: Whom do you love? 

whence

84 - katrina

all at once

104 - barataria bay

106 - Water and history (2): Macondo Prospect

111 - reel

112 - Reponds: What is the shape of your body? (2)

113 - Lake Martin

114 - Water and history (3)

116 - threnody

117 - Water and history (4): Chandeleur Sound

118 - Clean-up

119 - gulf coast toad

heretofore

124 - awakening: grand isle 

126 - Chemical Louisiana 

127 - Grand Isle 

129 - grand isle: pat landry 

131 - erode || erase 

132 - Reponds: What are the consequences of silence? 

133 - the remembered place 

135 - Politics 

on that occasion

143 - the old city

144 - les quartiers

145 - Binx’s Blues

151 - unnatural metropolis

154 - Vieux Carre

157 - wasted city

by and by

161 - reponds: describe a morning you woke without fear

162 - Boat-minded People

163 - blowout: Melvin Lirette

164 - Reponds: Tell me what you know about dismemberment

165 - Stormtracker

168 - Wasted

169 - Mapping

170 - oilfield dreams: roy champagne

172 ...