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Mercies in the American Desert : Poems
Author
Title
Mercies in the American Desert : Poems / Benjamin Landry.
ISBN
9780807175194
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (92 pages).
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Summary
"Reflecting on the Salem witch trials, Puritan minister Cotton Mather cautioned his audience against the moral temptations of the unknown wild, located in what he termed an American desert. Today, we understand that our troubles have their origins not in some ambiguous beyond; rather, they are of our own making. Benjamin Landry's "Mercies in the American Desert" attempts a clear-eyed reckoning with the people and the nation we have become, from gun violence to state-sanctioned racism and brutality. This vivid collection considers a range of bodies encompassing the geographic, the personal, and the political. It locates solace in movement, sound, and observation, as when Pina Bausch heron-dances down a traffic median, or when the expansive form of a surfacing manta ray teaches us how to breathe again. Incorporating short bursts of prose poem alongside longer meditations, and working in both alliterative and narrative modes, "Mercies in the American Desert" conjures a redemptive wildness for our time"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Machine generated contents note: I. Meep Meep
Espalier
Scuttling
Pina
Undergrowth
Bunyan
Hydrangeas
Old Marble Vast
For Those Who Would Squander Love, the Earthworm Has Five Hearts
Private Booth
Museum on Fire
African Grey
Still Life
Slippers and Underthings
Shaft of Light
Mercies in the American Desart
II. [Darling]
Recess
Ear Worm
She Asked Me to Explain
Where Once
Stock Ponds
Surely You Jest
Aquarium
Sing
Black Banks
Dream of Zenyatta Dancing
Clean Slate
Time of Asters
Idyll
At the Mouth of the St. Lawrence
From Atlanta
Night Vision
That Other Life
III. Left in Charge of the Garden
At a Remove
Unlearning Object Permanence
Shelter
Lineage
Gina Haspel and the Honey Bee
How Many Will Be Too Many
O, Sorority
Neighborly
Parkland
Favor
Working Labor Day
Recent Dispatch
Never Been
Venus Crossing
Aubade.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Poetry.
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