Mothers Over Nangarhar (eBook)

Pamela Hart (Autor)

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2019
Sarabande Books (Verlag)
978-1-946448-27-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An unusual and powerful war narrative told in poetry, focusing on the psychological battles suffered by parents, lovers, and friends on the home front.  

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Mothers Over Nangarhar is an unusual and powerful war narrative, focusing less on the front lines of combat and more on the home front, a perspective our American cultural canon has largely ignored after 222 years at war. In her stunning poetry debut, Pamela Hart concentrates on the fears and psychological battles suffered by parents, lovers, and friends during a soldier's absence and return home, if indeed there's a return. With honest grit and compassionate imagination, Hart describes her own experience having a son overseas, incorporating lyric meditations, photography, news articles, support group meetings, family interviews, oral histories, and classic literature to construct a documentary-style narrative very much situated in the now. Blending reality with absurdism and guided openly by a Calvino kind of logic, Hart reveals to us a crucial American point of view.

Autor

Pamela Hart is writer in residence at the Katonah Museum of Art where she teaches and manages an arts-in-education program called Thinking Through the Arts. She was awarded an NEA poetry fellowship in 2013. She recently received the Brian Turner Literary Arts prize for poetry. Her poems have been published in a variety of journals including the Southern Humanities Review, Bellevue Literary Review and Drunken Boat. Toadlily Press published her chapbook, The End of the Body. She is poetry editor and mentor for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project.

Inhalt

CONTENTS

TitlePage
War Partita4
Cities & Signs & War6
River of Painted Rocks7
War Games8
Flynn’s Pond9
To the Person Who10
At the Shooting Range11
Women & War Sestina12
The Cut13
In the Red Cross Parking Lot14
Sometimes We Talk About Nothing15
The Shawl16
The Matins Project17

II
Contour Drawing19
Museum20
Land Navigation21
Birds Rising22
How to Make a Diorama23
The Women24
Graces Watches the News25
During War We Email Our Soldiers26
In the Car27
Globe Skimmer28
Numerous Gray Areas29
In Which I Talk to the Mother of Crazy Horse30
Landay31
Praise Song32
Exhalation33

III
Field Notes from Home35
Some Principles of Return38
Kevlar Poem39
Soldier Undated World War I40
Rules of Engagement41
The Map is not the Territory42
The Ruby Ring43
As Thetis44

IV
Looking at Monet’s Water Lilies46
On the Orange Jumpsuit47
CONTENTS

TitlePage

War Stories50
My Soldier51
Night Vision52
Over Nangarhar53
Drone Song54
Private Jonathon Lee Gifford’s Mother55
Kevlar Poem II56
Regarding the Improvised Explosive Device57
Negative Capability59
Birds Gather on Empty Ground60

V
Tea With the Vietcong Soldier’s Wife62
Before After63
Everything is Everywhere64
Obon65
Stray Dog Story66
Not the Same67
Memorial 68
M16/ M469
On the Soldier’s Birthday70
Jalalabad71
Transmigration72

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
• Reihe/Serie: Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: Classic Literature • documentary-style narrative • family interviews • fears and psychological battles suffered by parents • fighting overseas • friends of soldiers • home front perspective • lovers • lyric meditations • news articles • oral histories • photography • poetry debut • powerful war narrative • returning home • support group meetings
• ISBN-10: 1-946448-27-3 / 1946448273
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-27-9 / 9781946448279