Familiar History - Getto, Guiseppe
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In the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales, Familiar History "expertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives." The poems in these pages take an unflinching look at rural life in the Desert Southwest and reveal a world composed of harshly beautiful scenery, as reflected in the poem "Burning Wishes": Someone said they never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. Me neither, but it seemed sometimes like they ought to be. The bark beetles that crunch in and out of their white fir…mehr

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In the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales, Familiar History "expertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives." The poems in these pages take an unflinching look at rural life in the Desert Southwest and reveal a world composed of harshly beautiful scenery, as reflected in the poem "Burning Wishes": Someone said they never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. Me neither, but it seemed sometimes like they ought to be. The bark beetles that crunch in and out of their white fir tunnels and branch outward until each thorax, leg, and instinct intersects, becoming a web meaning nothing. A cold snap couples indeterminately with wind velocity and the fracture lines of ice particles, killing only incidentally. The message is clear: in the universe of these poems, nature doesn't care about you or the meaning you give it. The book also reveals the child abuse, violence, racism, and poverty endemic to much of this region through the eyes of someone who spent nearly 30 years there. In the title poem, the narrator speaks directly to this relationship between the memories carried in human bodies and those held by the landscapes they inhabit: I will learn to seal everything up inside. We all will. In 1969 the desert will swallow an atom bomb whole. In 1969 my grandmother's pancreas will swallow too much of the awful light from a safe distance inside a bus. After awhile you begin to realize light in the desert can penetrate anything. A 1951 description of the Nevada Test Site, included in an Army brochure for the Camp Desert Rock soldiers, tells them that the desert is a damned good place for disposing of used razor blades. It is. Familiar History is equal parts a lyrical reflection on the relationship between humanity and the natural environment and a deeply personal revelation of the secrets of a family of malcontents. The narrator's story is the story of rural America: a bitter tonic of regret, euphoria, and the search for salvation.
Autorenporträt
Guiseppe Getto is a Zen Buddhist, a poet, and an Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University. Familiar History is his first chapbook. His individual poems can be found in journals such as Sugarhouse Review, Slant, Reed, Eclectica, Santa Clara Review, and Redactions, among others. Though poetry is definitely an avocation for him at this point, he has been writing poetry most of his life. Like many writers, he uses art to process a difficult upbringing. He was born and raised in rural Nevada, a landscape littered with nuclear fallout from above ground atomic testing, violent cowboys, and dysfunctional family systems, including his own. This landscape is largely the palette he continues to use in most of his work even though he has lived outside of it for many years now. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife Jessica and their cat Jackie. There is far less nuclear fallout in North Carolina and the cowboys are milder, but there are about the same amount of dysfunctional family systems. Visit Guiseppe online at: http://guiseppegetto.com/poetry.