Vagrants & Accidentals

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Vagrants & Accidentals, the second full-length collection from poet Kevin Craft, is part vade mecum, part songbook, whose taut lines and adaptable stanzas traffic in the personal effects of emigration and estrangement, exile and return. In ornithology, a vagrant or accidental is a bird that appears out of its natural or normal range, blown off course by a storm, or inadvertently introduced into a new environment by human trade. Likewise, Craft is interested in things taken out of context--Greek myths in the Pacific Northwest, the potsherd or megalith stranded in a museum, excess carbon in the atmosphere, American pop songs in a Roman piazza, adoptions, estrangements, dangerous migrations, the constant shuffle of human beings from place to place—asking how we reorient ourselves in the crossfire of constant, rapid, global transformation.Organized into four parts, the collection moves from the deeply personal to more global issues of interconnectedness. In language intensely lyrical, grounded in prehistory and science, Craft evokes questions of family and belonging that underscore a lifetime, gradually revealing the forces that shape us from the deepest reaches of time and place. As some birds sing to define their territory, so his poetry calls between the raggedness of daily life and our deeper yearning for coherence.Listen to an interview with and readings by the author via KUOW: http://kuow.org/post/what-i-learned-my-feminist-mom

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-03
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePacific Northwest Poetry SeriesPacific Northwest Poetry SeriesPacific Northwest Poetry SeriesPacific Northwest Poetry SeriesPacific Northwest Poetry SeriesVagrants & Accidentals
Antal sidor277
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295999845

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Part One1. Vagrants 2. Borders without Doctors 3. The Descent 4. Carousel 5. The Changeling 6. Among the Cypresses (23 Remedies) 7. After Caravaggio 8. Carbon Copy 9. Utilitarianism 10. Cycladic Head 11. Les Calanques 12. The Weir 13. Wilson's WarblerPart Two1. Matinee 2. Untitled #10 3. Parents 4. The Beardsley Limner 5. Small Government 6. Flash Drive 7. For the Climbers 8. Skunk Cabbage 9. Not Waving but Growling 10. God: A Study 11. On a Friday 12. FinessePart Three1. Transparency 2. Linear A 3. Persona Non Grata 4. On Turning 38 in Rome 5. New Volunteer at the Art Museum 6. Nisqually Delta 7. Lignum Vitae 8. Linear B 9. Carmen Saeculare 10. Parakeets in Rome 11. The Quagmire 12. Bivalve Lullaby 13. Low Hanging FruitPart Four1. Old Paradox 2. Accidentals 3. Entanglement (Sombrero) 4. Core Sample 5. Therefore Wander 6. Entanglement (Satellite) 7. Pigeon Guillemots 8. The Break 9. House Finch in Bird Bath 10. An Illustrated Guide to Feathers 11. Hard Return 12. The Undertow 13. One Atmosphere

"The University of Washington Press' Pacific Northwest Poetry Series has shepherded a gorgeous new collection of Craft's poetry into being: Vagrants & Accidentals, which feels like a book that's been bottled up for a decade, just waiting to be introduced to an unsuspecting world. The poetry in Vagrants is eager and obsessed with big ideas like evolution and the act of becoming. . . . Craft argues that without the eyes to see and the lips to speak and the fingers to write, the world may as well not have existed at all. On that same wavelength, a Seattle without Craft's poetry in it would be a forgettable dot on a map. He breathes life into our world, as an editor, a publisher, and most definitely as a poet."- Paul Constant (Seattle Review of Books)