Joyful Orphan

Poems
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64779-094-3
Verlag: University of Nevada Press

Buch, Englisch, 81 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 100 g

Reihe: Test Site Poetry Series

Through poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin's elegant collection of poetry explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness, and engages with forms of spirit that cannot be bound. With the incursion of electronic communication, our connections with one another have been radically distorted. Irwin's poems confront what it means to be human, and how conflict, along with the interface between technology and humanity, can cause us to become orphaned in many different ways. But it is our decision to be joyful. 

Excerpt from "Letter"
Times when we touch hope like the hem of a cloud 
just as when we touch a body or door, or think 
of the dead come back, romancing 
us through the warp of memory, lighting a way
by luring.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irwin, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents
- I. Go
- Goes
- Vertigo
- Balloon
- The Dead
- Light
- Letter
- Alive
- Couple
- Blue, Red
- Notre-Dame of Paris, 2019
- Story
- Livestream
- Tree, River
- Hover
- The Life
- II. Home
- Was into Space
- Holiday
- Edges
- Joyful Orphan
- Ash
- The smaller house
- Arrival
- How long?
- Library of Water
- 3D
- Family
- Why—
- We
- Faces
- Hungry
- Radiance
- Wilderness
- Bright in June Sun
- III. Wild
- Nike of Samothrace
- Legend
- All the tiny arrows
- Just once
- Gift
- Livestream
- English
- Plaster of Paris
- Spring, 2020
- Nearer
- Variation on a Phrase by Dickinson
- Trailer for a Movie not yet Made
- 1937 Indian Head Nickel
- La liberté libre
- Thirst
- Pinprick
- Three Panels
- Yet
- Refrain
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author