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In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful
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23,09 €
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A poetic re-visioning of narratives of violence against women and natureIn the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that…
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- Autorius: Abigail Chabitnoy
- Leidėjas: Wesleyan University Press
- ISBN-10: 0819500135
- ISBN-13: 9780819500137
- Formatas: 15.4 x 22.7 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų, Inupiakų
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A poetic re-visioning of narratives of violence against women and natureIn the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that are in conversation with history, ancestors, and an uncertain future, in imagery that moves in waves, returning again and again to the ocean, and a deep visioning of the "current."
Excerpt from IN THE FIELD
They asked me if I was a citizen.
They wanted to know what I had seen/
I had heard/
this was only a test:
Look at the mark and tell them what you see.
[...]
Knygos.lt nariams
16,16 €
-30%
Įprastai
23,09 €
Išsiųsime per 12–18 d.d.
- Autorius: Abigail Chabitnoy
- Leidėjas: Wesleyan University Press
- ISBN-10: 0819500135
- ISBN-13: 9780819500137
- Formatas: 15.4 x 22.7 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų, Inupiakų
A poetic re-visioning of narratives of violence against women and nature
In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that are in conversation with history, ancestors, and an uncertain future, in imagery that moves in waves, returning again and again to the ocean, and a deep visioning of the "current."
Excerpt from IN THE FIELD
They asked me if I was a citizen.
They wanted to know what I had seen/
I had heard/
this was only a test:
Look at the mark and tell them what you see.
[...]
In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that are in conversation with history, ancestors, and an uncertain future, in imagery that moves in waves, returning again and again to the ocean, and a deep visioning of the "current."
Excerpt from IN THE FIELD
They asked me if I was a citizen.
They wanted to know what I had seen/
I had heard/
this was only a test:
Look at the mark and tell them what you see.
[...]
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