Strange Land (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) - Softcover

Hearon, Todd

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ISBN 10: 0809329662 ISBN 13: 9780809329663

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010

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"Todd Hearon's engaging, inventive language penetrates to what he calls 'the dark of your memory,' a region where dreamlife and language overlap, where occulted feelings find the chords and discords of speech. . . . This is a first book of rare mastery." -Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate "At once inventive and elegant, hungering and assured, immediate and literary, visceral and visionary, the poems of "Strange Land" range broadly across the idiomatic and the oracular with a lyric economy that is as deftly accomplished as it is exhilarating. "Strange Land" is an exceptional first book, ambitious and necessary." Daniel Tobin, author of "Second Things" "At once inventive and elegant, hungering and assured, immediate and literary, visceral and visionary, the poems of "Strange Land" range broadly across the idiomatic and the oracular with a lyric economy that is as deftly accomplished as it is exhilarating. "Strange Land" is an exceptional first book, ambitious and necessary."--Daniel Tobin, author of "Second Things" "Todd Hearon's engaging, inventive language penetrates to what he calls 'the dark of your memory, ' a region where dreamlife and language overlap, where occulted feelings find the chords and discords of speech. . . . This is a first book of rare mastery." --Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate Todd Hearon s engaging, inventive language penetrates to what he calls the dark of your memory, a region where dreamlife and language overlap, where occulted feelings find the chords and discords of speech. . . . This is a first book of rare mastery. Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate" At once inventive and elegant, hungering and assured, immediate and literary, visceral and visionary, the poems of "Strange Land" range broadly across the idiomatic and the oracular with a lyric economy that is as deftly accomplished as it is exhilarating. "Strange Land" is an exceptional first book, ambitious and necessary. Daniel Tobin, author of "Second Things"" The cover of Hearon's "Strange Land "features a menacing Mickey Mouse-like character emerging from an anthropomorphic map of the United States the allusive strange land, one assumes. Inside, the poems, written against the background of America's current wars of choice, bring even graver meaning to Hearon's tide: strange land is a kind of no-man's-land, a geography of our worst collective flaws. As disquieting as much of the work in this collection is, however, "Strange Land "offers some hope. Many of Hearon's poems do extraordinary work to discover moments of communion, precariously situated in times of conflict. "It was the past, could have been many pasts," he writes in 'Ancestors": I sat down, we all sat down together. One offered grace, I saw the fingers fall over the loaves that never can be broken though they be shattered, pulled apart as loves. A reader will encounter both loss and connection here in the pulling apart of loaves, turned loves. Similarly, in "The Singers," which speaks to life's casualties, "the hawk's / indifference to the hare's terror," Hearon salvages a sense of our shared humanity, our ability to sing our fundamental truths. Whether describing communion or the warlike tendencies of the species, Hearon's poems are finely drawn and impress with their subtle gravity A case in point is the poem "Translation," broken into seven otherwise continuous parts, whose final stanza suggests a "thing of grace," a creature or aircraft of unknown origin, as much an image of battle as of birdwatching: it seemed a thing of grace, it seemed a thing swam over us in flight, imagining the bone white wing. --;br> --Elizabeth Murphy"Salamander" (11/01/2011)" These are beautiful uncompromising poems. David Ferry, author of "Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations" My mind was a voyage hungering to happen, writes Todd Hearon in "Strange Land," a book that confronts the conundrum of human ambition, both public and private, and its translating effects the translation of ambition into hubris, of the memoryof our innocence into the hell we made of earth...[the] hell we made of each other. Hearon s particular achievement is to have translated this heritage of human failingsinto something akin to grace, a debut at once hushed and stirring. Carl Phillips, author of "Speak Low: Poems" "Strange Land" is heady fare, and hearty, too. Hearon is at once intellectual and passionate, a master of both the fish-eye lens and the zoom, equally at home in longer sequences and in epigrams. His formal mind is always in the service of what I can only call a vatic spirit, and his poems are (as poems should be) both aesthetic islands and maps of the mainland where we live. They are psalms (and salaams) for our world. In the fleece of these poems (to paraphrase one of them) the beast to bear us onward comes. Geoffrey Brock, author of "Weighing Light: Poems"" "These are beautiful uncompromising poems."--David Ferry, author of "Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations" "'My mind was a voyage hungering to happen, ' writes Todd Hearon in "Strange Land," a book that confronts the conundrum of human ambition, both public and private, and its translating effects--the translation of ambition into hubris, of the 'memory of our innocence' into 'the hell we made of earth...[the] hell we made of each other.' Hearon's particular achievement is to have translated this heritage of human failings into something akin to grace, a debut at once hushed and stirring."--Carl Phillips, author of "Speak Low: Poems" ""Strange Land" is heady fare, and hearty, too. Hearon is at once intellectual and passionate, a master of both the fish-eye lens and the zoom, equally at home in longer sequences and in epigrams. His formal mind is always in the service of what I can only call a vatic spirit, and his poems are (as poems should be) both aesthetic islands and maps of the mainland where we live. They are psalms (and salaams) for our world. In the fleece of these poems (to paraphrase one of them) the beast to bear us onward comes."--Geoffrey Brock, author of "Weighing Light: Poems" "At once inventive and elegant, hungering and assured, immediate and literary, visceral and visionary, the poems of "Strange Land" range broadly across the idiomatic and the oracular with a lyric economy that is as deftly accomplished as it is exhilarating. "Strange Land" is an exceptional first book, ambitious and necessary."--Daniel Tobin, author of "Second Things" "Todd Hearon's engaging, inventive language penetrates to what he calls 'the dark of your memory, ' a region where dreamlife and language overlap, where occulted feelings find the chords and discords of speech. . . . This is a first book of rare mastery." --Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate @font-face { font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; }@font-face { font-family: "Garamond"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.Style1, li.Style1, div.Style1 { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.CharacterStyle1 { }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } The cover of Hearon's "Strange Land "features a menacing Mickey Mouse-like character emerging from an anthropomor-phic map of the United States--the allusive strange land, one assumes. Inside, the poems, written against the background of America's current wars of choice, bring even graver meaning to Hearon's tide: strange land is a kind of no-man's-land, a geogra-phy of our worst collective flaws. As disquieting as much of the work in this collection is, however, "Strange Land "offers some hope. Many of Hearon's poems do extraordinary work to discover moments of commun-ion, precariously situated in times of conflict. "It was the past, could have been many pasts," he writes in 'Ancestors" I sat down, we all sat down together. One offered grace, I saw the fingers fall over the loaves that never can be broken though they be shattered, pulled apart as loves. A reader will encounter both loss and connection here in the pulling apart of loaves, turned loves. Similarly, in "The Singers," which speaks to life's casualties, "the hawk's / indifference to the hare's terror," Hearon salvages a sense of our shared humanity, our ability to sing our fundamental truths. Whether describing communion or the warlike tendencies of the species, Hearon's poems are finely drawn and impress with their subtle gravity A case in point is the poem "Translation," broken into seven otherwise continuous parts, whose final stan-za suggests a "thing of grace," a creature or aircraft of unknown origin, as much an image of battle as of bird "These are beautiful uncompromising poems."-David Ferry, author of "Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations" "'My mind was a voyage hungering to happen,' writes Todd Hearon in "Strange Land," a book that confronts the conundrum of human ambition, both public and private, and its translating effects-the translation of ambition into hubris, of the 'memory of our innocence' into 'the hell we made of earth...[the] hell we made of each other.' Hearon's particular achievement is to have translated this heritage of human failings into something akin to grace, a debut at once hushed and stirring." -Carl Phillips, author of "Speak Low: Poems" ""Strange Land" is heady fare, and hearty, too. Hearon is at once intellectual and passionate, a master of both the fish-eye lens and the zoom, equally at home in longer sequences

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Traveling the labyrinthine roads of estrangement and longing, Todd Hearon's haunting debut collection chronicles the twin paths of isolation and desire in the search for meaning and union with others. On his pilgrimage through the lost worlds of earth and the soul, the speaker encounters drought in both the literal and spiritual sense as he confronts desolate landscapes: from the brown remnants of ruined cities to the depths of the human heart and man's capacity for utter destruction. Yet even though he frequently encounters darkness, he never ceases to seek beauty. He is a man who wears many faces, from Adam, staring down a bleak future bereft of Paradise, to doomed poet Shelley, drowned off the coast of Italy. He speaks as a man adrift in his own life, seeking an answer to his emptiness, an estranged traveler through memory and longing. Lyrical and intense, ""Strange Land"" is a quest for understanding and human connection.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0809329662
• ISBN 13: 9780809329663
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72