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Feral

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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In richly detailed poems of wolf girls and feral boys, green children, and polar explorers, mermaids, orphans, and moth collectors, Janet McAdams explores the vexed relationship between human and non-human nature, between body and land. How to understand the voice lost between forest and city, which cries, “I am not wild, I am not human.” Why fear wildness? What lies in the need to tame ourselves and others? These are the questions raised in Feral, the eagerly anticipated second collection by the American Book Award winning author of The Island of Lost Luggage. At times tender, at times angry, the chorus of displaced voices in Feral maps our fractured relationship with the earth and issues a call for reunion. “What if the world came back?” one voice asks. What if “lake river ocean” called our bodies to remember? In the visionary anti-epic that concludes the book, a people struggle to understand their history as they journey toward their land of origin, toward the earth they are trying to remember. Through finely wrought imagery, a keen musicality, and a perspective that is both compassionate and exacting, this powerful collection explores how our relationship to land determines who we are –as individuals, as cultural beings, and as nations.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-02-28
Mått140 x 216 x 6 mm
Vikt136 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSalt Modern Poets
Antal sidor92
FörlagSalt Publishing
ISBN9781844712953

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Janet McAdams grew up in Alabama and attended the University of Alabama, where she was graduated with a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Her first book, The Island of Lost Luggage, won the Diane Decorah Award for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2000. Praised by reviewers as “closely crafted” and “achingly beautiful,” the collection received the American Book Award in 2001. She has been a resident artist at the Hambidge Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center, and Ucross. A certified Integral Yoga teacher, she also teaches creative writing and indigenous literature at Kenyon College, where she is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry. She is the editor of the Earthworks series of indigenous writing for Salt.

The CollectorsOffices of PityTwin, DisappearingThe Fish GirlWhat She Will Sing to YouThe Prisoner of Castle PilsachThe Polar JourneysThe Sister of the SwansThe Animal BathsLetter from the CrimeaThe Green Children The Orphan TrainBuffalo in Six DirectionsInterview with the ReaderThe Daughter of No OneDreaming, the Book ofGhazal of BodyOne Day the GirlThe Way the World Comes BackGirl in Phone BoothMothsThe Manson GirlsThe Children of AnimalsWingA Natural History of HandsSanctuary Ghost RanchEarth My Body Is Trying to RememberNotes