Right Hand

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Poems that radiate with incredible artistic vision and writerly craft.Pain, piercing, and language: with urgent lyricism and lacunae on the page, The Right Hand explores the physical, emotional, and philosophical experiences of chronic pain, bodywork (especially acupuncture), and healing. In the second half of the collection, the poet spends extended time with Bernini's sculpture of St. Teresa in Ecstasy in Rome, finding this famous scene of wounding to be in dialogue with her own experience of pain, as well as her suspension between languages and spiritual isolation. In The Right Hand, the hidden sites of the body speak, and Bernini’s centuries-old arrow pierces us with hurting eloquence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:113 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:100
Förlag:Tupelo Press, Incorporated
ISBN:9781961209138

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"In a shimmering phenomenology of body, spirit, and soul, The Right Hand resides at the tender junction of nerve and bone, “a nexus: metropolitan.” In her radiant collection, Christina Pugh’s astute eye illuminates Maya Lin’s lovely river of pins, St. Teresa of Avila with an angel, and wonders such as a “sea of porphyry.” A mystical cartography of the senses, Pugh’s earthbound threshold of the human resonates with our longing for God and the eternal, mapping a basil leaf juxtaposed to a basilica, displaying “the flash of a neural jewel,” or glowing with “this notion / of change carved in marble / unfettering the seam / between watcher / and creator.”"