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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2020-10-13
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9781571314833
- Book Title
- The Century : Poems
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Poetry
- Topic
- Women Authors, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
ISBN-10
1571314830
ISBN-13
9781571314833
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038374192
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Century : Poems
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Modern / 20th Century, American / General
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-008488
Reviews
"Éireann Lorsung's The Century looks back and locates its necessary ethical work in the ongoing half-life of our irradiated past, seeking nothing less than to own up to, if not reconcile, the complexities and complicities of our moral failures. Those failures, from the bloody history of racism to the violent light of nuclear war, lurk in us as does a radioactive isotope, decaying us from within. Lorsung knows beauty cannot end our responsibility, and it is not beauty these poems seek. They search instead for something vastly more important, the ethics hidden in aesthetics, a realization by which we might find some means to alter our awful ways, to stop ourselves from wielding force against another, to stall the force that uses us for its tool, to not let our own hands become hammers breaking themselves apart. Let us be honest. Let us be sane. This book is our textbook for the education we most need." -- Dan Beachy-Quick Praise for Her book "In Her book , Éireann Lorsung inhabits the uncertain and fluid boundaries between the body and the world, the self and the other. For the poet, the word searches out the image and gives it substance. For the reader, these poems offer a materiality of their own: '[The body's] speech packs around it like wasp / paper. Speaking a thin, permanent / archive.' The poems in this volume breach the ordinary parameters of space, time, and sense perception. To experience them is to occupy the space between in a surprising and yet subtle way." -- Kathleen Jesme "These poems believe in the miraculous--part primordial, part philosophical, part whimsical. Lorsung goes places other poets just hope to inhabit--breaking form--creating new. She shows so much about beauty without abstracting it to an idea. This is a perfect blend of body and soul; and the kind of writing poetry sometimes dreams of being." -- Washington Independent Review of Books Praise for Music for Landing Planes By "Éireann Lorsung's Music for Landing Planes By presents us with a beguiling voice that is light without being weightless....The lyrical nature of her composition and the surprises that hand at the end of her verses make this assortment of delights eminently re-readable. Ms. Lorsung's young triumphs deserve much more attention than they've yet received."-- Washington Times "The reward of her collection is her celebration of all physicality, all flesh and construction. She is attentive wherever the body and its tools meet... Her poems unite bravery and delicacy." -- Georgia Review " Music for Landing Planes By is, above all, a testament to artisanship, a belief in carefully crafting not just poems, but clothing, a cake, a piece of music.... This collection is a celebration of making things, and so a valuing of them and the world. It is ebullient, generous, tender verse." -- Michael McKimm "In this amazing first book, Éireann Lorsung enters deeply into the everyday--only to emerge awestruck, open and generous. In her hands both the world and the word are transformed into something radiant." -- Nick Flynn "Éireann Lorsung's debut volume, Music for Landing Planes By , is a young woman's love song to the planet. Images flock from a vivid pastoral world, uncarded fleece, wrens in thatch, chaff, lathe and hasp, joining the speaker in her effort to stitch prayer and dream, city and country, into one shimmering fabric of ardor."-- Leslie Adrienne Miller
Table Of Content
Contents Redaction / monument Form A [1] A tendency to survive after disaster Gray century Century with insomnia Island century Dream sequence for the century, with sonata Winter century Century lesson The book of splendor Big questions Century at Lampedusa Illuminated century [2] Americium Prypyat night song Open letter to Dmitriy Savchenko Ukrainian scientists split the atom Nuclear geography Report from Nasiriyah Report from Nasiriyah Occupations for air A huge letter on a hillside [3] An archaeology The book of splendor [4] Quite ordinary young men / some were neighbors Telephone 1 The lightest word they used was animal Telephone 2 Border house Telephone 3 Telephone 4 Telephone 5 Quite ordinary young men / some were neighbors [5] Nuclear geography [6] When I say fathers I imagine the picture of my gentle father with his brother (dead now) and his mother (also dead) and his father (now also dead, although at the time of first writing not yet dead), laughing, no one looking at the camera and no one noticing the photographer, who must be afriend or maybe my uncle on my mother's side, and who is in the room but invisible, and who for us has handed down these bodies as they once were, and outside the room the crush of history goes on
Synopsis
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in Poetry A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020" A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence. In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Éireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of "bodies in the fields becoming the fields," it's the simplicity that's most haunting. After a fire, "some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very / simple melting..." But these poems don't just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld. The Century is evasive but thorny, splintering in the mind. This collection is a reminder that the arrival of each new century, decade, or year brings with it an invitation to join ongoing movements of resistance, air pockets of hope in the waters that we all swim or drown in., Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in Poetry A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2020 A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence. In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Éireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of "bodies in the fields becoming the fields," it's the simplicity that's most haunting. After a fire, "some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very / simple melting..." But these poems don't just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld. The Century is evasive but thorny, splintering in the mind. This collection is a reminder that the arrival of each new century, decade, or year brings with it an invitation to join ongoing movements of resistance, air pockets of hope in the waters that we all swim or drown in.
LC Classification Number
PS3612.O77C46 2020
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- a***a (346)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThis hardback book is of the highest quality, has a fine appearance , arrived in perfect condition, and is an excellent value. On what I was not asked about this time, communicating with the seller would have required using email outside of the eBay system, because they do not accept eBay messages, the book was well packed in a purpose-designed cardboard box, the shipping was faster than I expected for the bound media rate, and the book was exactly as described and pictured.Tameshigiri - The History and Development of Japanese Sword Testing by Sesko (#282906424466)