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Cold Pastoral
Poems
Rebecca Dunham
- 80 pages
- English
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Cold Pastoral
Poems
Rebecca Dunham
Ă propos de ce livre
FINALIST FOR THE MIDWEST BOOKSELLERS CHOICE AWARD (POETRY)
A searing, urgent collection of poems that brings the lyric and documentary together in unparalleled waysâunmasking and examining the specter of manmade disaster.
On September 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed eleven men and began what would become the largest oil spill ever in US waters. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, leading to a death toll that is still unconfirmed. And in April 2014, the Flint water crisis began, exposing thousands of people to lead-contaminated drinking water. This is the litany of our timeâand these are the events that Rebecca Dunham traces, passionately and brilliantly, in Cold Pastoral.
In poems that incorporate interviews and excerpts from government documents and other sourcesâpoems that adopt the pastoral and elegiac traditions in a landscape where "I can't see the bugs; I don't hear the birds"âDunham invokes the poet as moral witness. "I owe him, " she writes of one man affected by the oil spill, "must learn, at last, how to look."
Experimental and incisive, Cold Pastoral is a collection that reveals what poetry canâand, perhaps, shouldâbe, reflecting ourselves and our world back with gorgeous clarity.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Mnemosyne to the Poet
- Elegy, Wind-Whipped
- Atavism at Twilight
- Black Horizon
- In Which She Opens the Box
- Elegy, Sung in Dirt
- Mud
- Field Note, 2011
- Et in Arcadia Ego
- Suburban Elegy
- Field Note, 2011
- Initial Exploration Report: Macondo Well
- Blowout
- To Walk on Air
- Elegy for the Eleven
- Daybreak
- There Lies the Hydra
- To Narcissus
- Backyard Pastoral
- In Which She Considers the Water
- Elegy, a Catalogue
- Field Note, 2011
- Elegy Written in Oil
- A Hive of Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author