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The Kent State University Press

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26 février 2016

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9781631012389

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English

"Seven Boxes for the Country After is a book about a way-making and way-finding. It is a journey, both internal and external, across a map, over borders, through a life, and in a body. It is passage and pilgrimage, odyssey and exile. Above all it is a book of questions. What do we carry with us and what do we leave behind? Where do we keep the past and what do we keep it in? How do we measure a person, a country, a love, a loss? What do we remember? What can't we forget? What do we declare and what do we declare it with: our words and mouths? our bodies and hands? in blue ink or black? If as Eudora Welty wrote, 'The memory is a living thing-it too is in transit,' then McAdams is an honest and faithful courier. The poems serve as storage boxes into which a memory is placed, then wrapped and bound. In poem after poem McAdams guides us to our most intimate spaces, the candy tin nestled between the handkerchiefs in a dresser's top drawer, the cigar box packed in the trunk and stored in the attic, and she allows us to open and sit with our deepest selves."-Catherine Wing"In an ideal world, all books would marry the lyricism of poetry with the narrativity of prose. They would pose questions and provide answers. They would be both accessible and elusive. They would evoke a sense of place yet remain profoundly universal. They would elicit wonder and concepts we have known our whole lives. We know we don't live in such a world because Janet McAdams's gorgeous and mysterious Seven Boxes for the Country After gives us an idea of what we've been missing in much of what's out there. This is a beautiful collection."-Dean Rader

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Publié par

The Kent State University Press

Date de parution

26 février 2016

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781631012389

Langue

English

SEVEN BOXES FOR THE COUNTRY AFTER
Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five
Catherine Wing, Editor
Poppy Seeds · Allison Davis
Here Both Sweeter · Daniel Carter
I Left My Wings on a Chair · Karen Schubert
Determinant · Alex Fabrizio
Local Fauna · Brian Brodeur
Little Nest · Diana Lueptow
Seven Boxes for the Country After · Janet McAdams
SEVEN BOXES FOR THE COUNTRY AFTER

Poems by Janet McAdams
The Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio
© 2016 by Janet McAdams
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2015040837
ISBN 978-1-60635-296-0
Manufactured in the United States of America
The Wick Poetry Series is sponsored in part by the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McAdams, Janet, 1957- author.
Title: Seven boxes for the country after : poems / by Janet McAdams.
Description: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016] | Series: Wick Poetry Chapbook Series ; 5
Identifiers: LCCN 2015040837 (print) | LCCN 2015041050 (ebook) | ISBN 9781606352960 (pbk.) ∞ | ISBN 9781631012389 (ePUB) | ISBN 9781631012396 (ePDF)
Classification: LCC PS3563.C263 A6 2016 (print) | LCC PS3563.C263 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040837
20 19 18 17 16 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
[When we thought to leave]
[Note:]
[They are loading the people]
[We saved words]
[Stranger list the ways]
[You need to bear down]
[Left the broken tools]
[If white is the color]
[When will they call]
[He photographed the letter]

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