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Believing is not the same as Being Saved de Lisa Martin

Believing is not the same as Being Saved

Autor Lisa Martin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2017

În noul său volum de poezie, Believing is not the same as Being Saved, Lisa Martin aduce o perspectivă proaspătă asupra liricii meditative, propunând o explorare a „adevărului liric” care supraviețuiește doar în paradox. Notăm cu interes modul în care această ediție se distanțează de abordările pur abstracte ale spiritualității, ancorând temele credinței și ale îndoielii în gesturi domestice și observații concrete, precum lumina care arde febril prin fereastra unei bucătării.

Descoperim aici o structură riguroasă, împărțită în două secțiuni ce balansează între forme fixe și libertatea poemului în proză. Prima parte pare să se concentreze pe reconstrucția lumii și pe definirea limitelor personale — de la „One hundred ways to build the world” la „Things I can and cannot do” — în timp ce a doua parte glisează spre o zonă mai intimă, abordând teme precum separarea sau relația I-Thou. Remarcăm continuitatea tematică față de lucrarea sa anterioară, Nighthawks, unde Lisa Martin explora de asemenea resturile căsniciei și singurătatea la mijlocul vieții, însă în volumul de față, tonul devine mai așezat, impregnat de o credință stăruitoare, deși tulburată.

Din punct de vedere al ariei tematice, Believing is not the same as Being Saved acoperă un teritoriu similar cu Things Not Seen de Eric Potter, ambele volume gestionând tensiunea dintre dorința de certitudine și prezența misterului. Totuși, volumul de față se diferențiază printr-o abordare mai legată de etică și de „arta de a trăi bine”, preferând o meditație tandră în locul spiritului ludic sau ingenios al lui Potter. Este o lucrare de o onestitate tăioasă, care nu oferă răspunsuri dogmatice, ci invită la o locuire conștientă în spațiul dintre certitudini.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781772121872
ISBN-10: 1772121878
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor care caută în poezie o oglindă a propriilor lupte interioare legate de credință și pierdere. Lisa Martin reușește să transforme îndoiala dintr-o criză într-o formă de prezență spirituală. Veți câștiga o lectură care nu simplifică suferința, ci o integrează într-un peisaj de o frumusețe fragilă, fiind o resursă valoroasă pentru cei care apreciază lirica metafizică modernă.

Descriere

Lisa Martin’s new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and sorrow. Here readers will find a range of moods, tones, and subjects, as well as both traditional and contemporary forms—from sonnets to prose poems. This is a collection imbued with the light of an enduring, if troubled, faith. With its focus on spirit, ethics, and how to live well, Believing is not the same as Being Saved offers a tender meditation on the moments that make a life.There’s a way of speaking as if the difference matters, as if the road home is finite—everything begins and ends somewhere, like your hand in mine, or how last light fractures in the limbs of pine—while beyond my window, a coyote follows a trail into the dusk that only it can see. — from "Map for the road home"

Recenzii

# 1 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 02, 2017
"Believing is not the same as Being Saved" is a quietly elegant book of poems.... You can see and feel the meticulous care Martin has taken in crafting these poems, constructing this book.... Martin understands that much of life is a paradox, that joy and sorrow are birds dancing on the same high wire." (Full review at http://michaeldennispoet.blogspot.ca/2017/06/believing-is-not-same-as-being-saved.html)
'[This] is an intricate collection of poems that meditates on pivotal traumatic events in the speaker’s life that challenge her faith.... In language that turns in and out of itself in finely tuned poetic phrasing, Martin deftly manages a vision that embraces death and loss as the other side of life and love and what matters most to us.... With poems that carry a religious and philosophic fervour—whose parallel in literary tradition might be Gerard Manley Hopkins with his rapturous sonnets that delve into his own faith and doubt about God – Martin’s verses are embedded with incandescent images from the natural world and are sinuous with thought riddled with paradox." The Goose, Vol. 16, Iss. 1 [2017] [Full review at http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol16/iss1/10/]
"Lisa Martin's "Believing is not the same as Being Saved" cleaves even closer to the holy, keeping religious motifs so near her natural language that they slip in unnoticed until they start to pile up, as in the various uses of the sword 'saved' in the title poem. Martin's best poems have a knack for reaching epiphanies by assiduously focusing and unfocusing their gaze.... Martin takes seriously the need to navigate between the philosophical and material worlds. "
# 8 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, May 06, 2018
"... a careful examination of grief, change and the lines between things. Throughout the collection, Martin’s speaker is deeply attuned to the mutability of the world. Images blend, timelines shift, and everything changes.... Martin urgently carries life and death to the reader, not to provide answers or antidotes, but to do the important work of showing us the rawness of living in a world where good things end." [Full review at http://www.prairiefire.ca/believing-is-not-the-same-as-being-saved-by-lisa-martin]
# 5 on Edmonton's Bestselling Books list; Poetry, March 1, 2020
#5 on Edmonton's Bestselling Books list; Poetry, January 3, 2021
# 9 on Edmonton Poetry Bestsellers list, May 9, 2021
# 9 on Edmonton Poetry Bestsellers list, August 8, 2021
# 6 on Edmonton Poetry Bestsellers list, July 3, 2022
# 3 on Edmonton Poetry Bestsellers list, April 14, 2024

Cuprins

1 Believing is not the same as being savedI5 One hundred ways to build the world6 One thing7 Firsts and lasts8 Pool9 Map for the road home10 Memorial at Horseshoe Lake11 The Ascension12 Perspective13 Sonnet for what we resolve into—14 A solstice is an astronomical event15 Story16 Return17 River18 Bill of Rights19 Singing in the spirit20 The song of the spirit drawing near to the body21 A small sigh, a hard thought, enters22 Individualism23 Bearings24 Survival and all other possibles26 If we understand the laws at all27 Still life with white roses28 Easter at the zoo for agnostics30 Learning to speak and not to speak31 Things I can and cannot do32 Preserve of the useful33 Sonnet for the distance between us34 Lightening up35 Birth weight37 Lessening38 Stories are for transforming ourselves40 Some of what we know about airports in the 21st century42 Vanity44 Conversions46 What I believe now about us thenII51 Dog years52 The opposite of the heart53 Expiration55 Separated57 I-Thou59 Adultery60 Argument61 On being in love62 Fidelity64 Weeping birch65 Theology66 Biology67 The fine thinking69 Heart70 Friendship72 Sonnet to myself and a stranger73 Incandescent light75 Elegy78 Ecstasis83 Circles84 Dancing the path to understanding85 Breathing in the northern forest87 Acknowledgements