Burn
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3928-0 (ISBN)
A lyrical meditation on time, survival, and merciful moments of joy
Sara Henning’s Burn draws readers deep into the moments that make us, focusing on instances of crisis and renewal to explore our relation to time and lived experience. In these poems, we follow a speaker as she works through the loss of young love, the death of her parents, marriage’s hardness and beauty, sexual assault, and the devastation of a pandemic—evolutions of trauma that fracture time and alter perception. Twinned with these extremes are shimmering manifestations of joy only an imperfect world can make possible.
Burn magnifies the way time leaves us both the victim and the victor of our realities. The blaze of her late-mother’s Tiffany lamps sends the speaker back to childhood, where she unearths mica from the schoolyard dirt. The devastation of an ecological crisis, the annihilating act of rape, and the unsolved disappearance of a caretaker all level the speaker’s world and upend her place in it, forcing her to reconstitute reality from what remains. In poems which summon the spirit of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, this collection walks through the physics of temporality as refracted through love, loss, and grief, so we better understand its effect on our lives. Through this insight, Henning introduces a new way of being in the world.
A work of advocacy and uplift, Burn shines with the vibrant possibilities of narrative lyric poetry as it forges a path from grief to hope.
Sara Henning is the author of Terra Incognita and View from True North, which was chosen by Adrian Matejka as co-winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award. She was awarded the 2015 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the 2019 Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award, a 2019 High Plains Book Award, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship. Her work has appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, Witness, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Marshall University.
CONTENTS
1.
Galveston, Texas
Stealing Ariel
Good Kissing
A Brief History of Fathers
Letter in the Shape of a Banyan Tree
Ghost Story
Blue
Cornfield Elegy
A Brief History of Light
Almost Men
Ars Poetica After an Abnormal Mammogram
Olives
Year of the Horse
2.
A Brief History of Fire
3.
The Virgin’s Club
When I Choose a Man
Cairns at School House Beach
Cat State
Texas Duplex
Meditation at Panda Express
Christmas Quarantine
After Uri
A Brief History of Hurricanes
A Brief History of Skin
Drive-In Nights
The First Years
Men of the Sea
Burn
Acknowledgments
Notes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Crab Orchard Series in Poetry |
| Verlagsort | Carbondale |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 36 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8093-3928-5 / 0809339285 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8093-3928-0 / 9780809339280 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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