Éireann Lorsung

Her book (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Exacting, and at the same time utterly magical." -ADA LIMÓN

With intelligence and crystalline clarity, a chorus of female voices speaks through the poems in Her book, Éireann Lorsung's luminous second collection.

Full of youth, wonder, and imagination, Her book crosses distances and generations to celebrate the lives of women, their individual and shared experiences, and the bonds that bring them together. This is also a book about translation (of experience into art, of knowledge across time and space), conversation (with, for instance, work by the artist Kiki Smith), and friendship (especially those made during Lorsung's time in England). In these poems, the female body rises from a foundation of stars. Songbirds are cut from paper and stormy light. And letters arrive, and disappear, mysteries contained within.

"Part ecstatic recollection of the many ways places and objects leave their indelible marks upon our bodies and brains, and part timeless ode to the strange female beast that pounds inside of us all" (Ada Limón), Her book is both an inspired work from Lorsung and, fundamentally, her book-poems belonging to all women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571318794
• Artikelnr.: 39489913

Autorenporträt

Native Minnesotan Éireann Lorsung's first book, Music for Landing Planes By, was published by Milkweed in 2007. Since then, she has lived in France, the UK, and Belgium. Lorsung edits the journal 1110 and co-runs MIEL Books, a small press.

Inhaltsangabe

1 / Fifteen poems for Kiki Smith
Revelation
Carrier (standing woman carrying wolf)
Standing
Rapture
Untitled (camera)
Girl with chain
It falls into ruin by its own weight
Scaffold body
Daughters
Dowry cloth
Honey brain
The cells-the moon
Familiars
Stars and scat
Blue blanket
2 / Girllife
First principles
Historical fragment
Pink
A collection of beauties at the height of their popularity
And so the last day came, and the last hour of the last day
Bee summer
City pleasure
England, or the continent I had in mind when I came here
Sweets
Live bees
The birdwoman at Grasmere
Smooth stone, fox
How it all began
Historical fragment
The birdwoman in the cathedral
International postage coupon
Bird construction
Honey
3 / Reconstruction
Autoportrait tree
Post
Think on the lilies of the field
Listening to other people's praying
Creation tune
Sewing together
Quilt with birds
Eating the archive
Single page drawing
Transubstantiation