My Shining Archipelago - Brossura

Ansel, Talvikki

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0300070322 ISBN 13: 9780300070323

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

The winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Talvikki Ansel for My Shining Archipelago.

"Ansels poetry is refreshingly original," says the distinguished poet and contest judge James Dickey. "She renders the heat, the closeness, the mystery, and the terrible fear of the undisclosed, the lurking, the waiting to happen. This is true imagination, true craft."

Flemish Beauty
Yesterday, all winter,
I had not thought of pears, considered:
pear.  The tear-shaped, papery core,
precise seeds. This one channeled
through with worm tunnels.
Bruises, a rotten half?
sometimes there’s nothing left
to drop into the pot.

                                  That phrase
I could have said: ?you still
have us?”
                  The knife
slides easily beneath the skins,
top to base, spiraling
them away.

The insubstantial us.
It could as well be the pear
talking to the river, turning to
the grass (?you still have us”).
Besides, it’s just me
a pear in my hand (the slop bucket full
of peels)?and sometimes, yes, that
seems enough: a pear?

                                      this larger one,
yellow-green, turning to red:
?Duchess” maybe, ?Devoe,”
or what I want to call it: ?Flemish
Beauty.”
                 When I can’t sleep,
I’ll hold my hand as if I held
a pear, my fingers mimicking
the curve. The same curve
as the newel post
I’ve used for years, swinging
myself up to the landing, always
throwing my weight back. And always
nails loosening, mid-bound.

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Book by Ansel Ms Talvikki

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300070322
• ISBN 13: 9780300070323
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 72