The New World (eBook)

Infinitesimal Epics

Anthony Carelli (Autor)

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2021
80 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21881-6 (ISBN)

Infos

From an "e;uncommonly fluent"e; and "e;rewarding"e; poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems, is an American travelogue that unfolds in a series of darkly comic episodes, with allusions to Dante as a thread throughout. In these epics in miniature, we meet a pilgrim-poet as he awaits the arrival of his child, a would-be Columbus, on the shores of a land "e;disenstoried"e; by explorers present and past. It's a land and a people largely lost in mindscapes and mythscapes, haunted by sketchy aspirational visions, misbegotten misremembering, and emptiness. Nonetheless, the poet steps out to the shore to sing for the child-and reader-to do what Columbus never did: "e;land gently. / And listen and / listen and listen / and stay."e; Constantly unsettling the rhetoric of inherited forms, the poet shaping these poems is always bound to the pilgrim, who cannot pretend to dissolve our purgatories but can only invite us-as a latter-day Virgil would-deeper into the uncanny encounters that encircle us. From an Arizona nursing home and a grandmother's memory of a stolen golden Schwinn in the occupied Philippines, to a tale of road-tripping west through Pennsylvania as sunrise transpires in the wrong sky, The New World opens strange spaces for us to re-see, lament, and re-sing the stories we tell.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: ambulance • Ancient Greece • Anthony Carelli • Archive • Balkans • Beer bottle • Bei Dao • Ben Belitt • blouse • Bobber (motorcycle) • breakup of yugoslavia • Bulldozer • Burrito • cabbage • Career • Catherine Opie • cattle • Cheek • Citgo • Clock face • coffin • Comet tail • Concussion • Couplet • Cow dung • David Lehman • Didgeridoo • Epigraph (literature) • family farm • Feminist Art • feminist history • Fitzcarraldo • forest floor • fuel • Granola • groin • hamstring • Hanging (meat) • Hannah Wilke • Hardness • harry mathews • Hart Crane • Hayv Kahraman • Indian Ocean • Intellectual Property • Iridescence • Jay Wright (poet) • Jerky • J. (newspaper) • John Keats • Joke • jorie graham • Laptop • Library of Congress • Lightness (philosophy) • Literature • Moby-Dick • Nights (character) • oat • ochre • Osip Mandelstam • parking lot • pasture • Poet • Poetry • Princeton University Press • Publication • Purgatorio • Republic of Macedonia • Robert Frost • Robert Pinsky • Running • saucer • Semi-trailer truck • shoulder • Sleeve • Sluice • Sonnet • soybean • speedometer • steamship • Stephen Hawking • supermarket • sweet corn • swimsuit • Take Flight (musical) • Teriyaki • tessellation • The People of India • Thessaloniki • tie-dye • tire • tobacco • venison • Wheat • Where the Green Ants Dream • windshield • woolen • Wrist • Yugoslavia
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21881-1 / 0691218811
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21881-6 / 9780691218816