Ryan Walsh

Reckonings

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The deft, moving lyrics of Reckonings attempt to account for the slow violence of Appalachia's industrialization ¿ particularly its twin legacies of exploitative labor and toxic waste pollution ¿ while also positioning us in meaningful relation to this violence, the "Risk published in the air" by corrupt corporations. It's impossible work, making meaning out of the willful destruction of the working class and of the earth, but Ryan Walsh mounts a passionate defense of the too-often overlooked and devalued lives and landscapes of West Virginia. "Unincorporated? It was always corporate," Walsh asserts of the community where he grew up, and bears witness to a landscape and a people living beyond their own ruin. Far from hopeless, these powerful poems testify to the persistence of ordinary hopes despite injustice, and celebrate "this dark remaining/joy we take into our brief bodies." ¿Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Baobab Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781936097234
• ISBN-10: 1936097230
• Artikelnr.: 53169317

Autorenporträt

Ryan Walsh was born and raised in West Virginia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Reckoner (2015) and The Sinks (2011) and holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Warren Wilson College. His poems have appeared in Blackbird, Ecotone, Field, Forklift, Ohio, Narrative, and elsewhere. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.