Native Species
Autor Todd Davisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2019
In his sixth book of poetry, Todd Davis, who Harvard Review declares is “unflinchingly candid and enduringly compassionate,” confesses that “it’s hard to hide my love for the pleasures of the earth.” In poems both achingly real and stunningly new, he ushers the reader into a consideration of the green world and our uncertain place in it. As he writes in “Dead Letter to James Wright,” “You said / you’d wasted your life. / I’m still not sure / what species I am.” To that end, Native Species explores what happens to us—to all of us, bear, deer, mink, trout, moose, girl, boy, woman, man—when we die, and what happens to the soul as it faces extinction—if it “migrates into the lives of other creatures, becomes a fox or frog, an ant in a colony serving a queen, a red salamander entering a pond before it freezes.” He wonders, too, “How many new beginnings are we granted?” It’s a beautiful question, and it freights, simultaneously, possibility and pain. These are the verses of a poet maturing into a new level of thinking, full of tenderness and love for the home that carries us all.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611863154
ISBN-10: 1611863155
Pagini: 110
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
ISBN-10: 1611863155
Pagini: 110
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
Notă biografică
Todd Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry as well as of a limited-edition chapbook. His writing has won the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. He teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.
Cuprins
Contents
Geomorphology
I.
Almanac of Faithful Negotiations
Goat’s Milk
Perception
Passerine
Hard Winter
The Woman Who Cuts My Hair
Cracks
How Our Names Turn into Light
Hexagonal
First Thoughts about God after Spying a Speckled Trout Eat a Green Drake
Talus Slope
Geodes
My Mother’s Cooking
Failed Argument against Sorrow
Finding a Skull
Because This Is What Love Comes To
In the Seventh Month My Mother Worries
Decadence
Denomination
17-Year Locust
Hibernation
II.
Lost Country of Light
Green Beans
Dead Letter to Elizabeth Bishop
The Alzheimer’s Patient Tries to Remember the Names for Trees
What Came Before
Lessons from the Flood
The Mennonite’s Daughter Goes Down to the River
First Kiss
What My Aunt Virginia Says When She Visits
Lineage
What Water Wants
Valley Maker
Memory
Native Species
The Turtle
Taxidermy: Cathartes aura
For the First Nine Months We Perceive the World through the Eyes of Our Mother
The Mink
A Senior Citizen at the Good Shepherd and Water of Life Assisted Living Center Asks Her Son for a Sky Burial
Dead Letter to James Wright
III.
Seep
Generosity
The Rain that Holds Light in the Trees
Gnosis
Waiting to Hear If a Friend’s Wife Has Cancer
Notes on the Anniversary of the Death of Galway Kinnell
After Twenty-Seven Years of Marriage
Dead Letter to Richard Hugo
With Nothing Between Us and the End of the World
Self-Portrait with My Dead
Logjam on Lookout Creek
Appalachian Nocturne: Ursa Major
Returning to Earth
Thankful for Now
Coltrane Eclogue
And If There Is a Day of Resurrection
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
“Todd Davis’s beautiful new book looks with patience, ardor, and often heartbreak at is beloved landscapes—both literal and figurative—and the ways those landscapes change, always change. Whether it’s the land being ruined, the aging or dying of family and friends, or his own body turning and turning toward what it does, Davis holds his gaze steadily upon it all, gently upon it all, which makes for some mourning but also plenty of magic. A good deal of sorrow but even more wonder. Even more wonder. Look closely, this book reminds me. Look closer still.”
—ROSS GAY, winner of a 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
—ROSS GAY, winner of a 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Descriere
In his sixth book of poetry, Todd Davis, who Harvard Review declares is “unflinchingly candid and enduringly compassionate,” confesses that “it’s hard to hide my love for the pleasures of the earth.” In poems both achingly real and stunningly new, he ushers the reader into a consideration of the green world and our uncertain place in it. He wonders, too, “How many new beginnings are we granted?” It’s a beautiful question, and it freights, simultaneously, possibility and pain. These are the verses of a poet maturing into a new level of thinking, full of tenderness and love for the home that carries us all.