Nightingale (Paperback)

Paisley Rekdal

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Copper Canyon Press,U.S., 2019

1556595670 / 9781556595677

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Paperback. Here, Rekdal translates pain into redemption, so that a loss is not an ending but a transformation, in this riveting poetic alchemy. Publishers Weekly, starred reviewNightingale explores what few writers since Ovid have reminded us: metamorphosis is a violent act, requiring dismemberment, silence, and fragmentation before we can become something new. New York Journal of BooksNightingale is a book about change. This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovids epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdals characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human events. In Nightingale, a mother undergoes cancer treatments at the same time her daughter transitions into a son; a woman comes to painful terms with her new sexual life after becoming quadriplegic; a photographer wonders whether her art is to blame for her sons sudden illness; and a widow falls in love with her dead husbands dog. At the same time, however, the book includes more intimate lyrics that explore personal transformation, culminating in a series of connected poems that trace the continuing effects of sexual violence and rape on survivors. Nightingale updates many of Ovids subjects while remaining true to the Roman epics tropes of violence, dismemberment, silence, and fragmentation. Is change a physical or a spiritual act? Is transformation punishment or reward, reversible or permanent? Does metamorphosis literalize our essential traits, or change us into something utterly new? Nightingale investigates these themes, while considering the roles that pain, violence, art, and voicelessness all play in the changeable selves we present to the world. A fierce, contemporary reworking of ancient mythologyfrom Ovid to Edenconfronts sexual violence, loss, and existential reckoning. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

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Titolo
Nightingale (Paperback)
Autore
Paisley Rekdal
Editore
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Anno di pubblicazione
2019
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1556595670
ISBN 13
9781556595677

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