Sing by the Burying Ground

Essays

Marianne Boruch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2024
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4692-1 (ISBN)

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In her fourth essay collection, author Marianne Boruch explores the possibilities of hope even in darkness. Through poetry, the silence of Trappist monks, the pandemic moment, the Wright brothers’ quirky stab at flight, treasured knickknacks, and more, this book celebrates the weird, the mundane, the overlooked, and the promise of a future.

Meditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows

In her fourth essay collection, award-winning author Marianne Boruch explores the possibilities of hope even in darkness. Through poetry, the silence of Trappist monks, the pandemic moment, the Wright brothers’ quirky stab at flight, treasured knickknacks, and more, this book celebrates the weird, the mundane, the overlooked, and the promise of a future. Though each essay is distinct, foraging fresh ways into Louise GlÜck, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Langston Hughes, and more, they are all connected through the thread of Emily Dickinson’s comment that her fate was to “sing, as a Boy does by the Burying Ground . . .” Even in times filled with horror, we find beauty. Maybe we can sing in the blackest of nights.

Thoughtful and expressive, this collection provides solace and humor for readers in a world where both are often in short supply.

Marianne Boruch is the award-winning author of numerous poetry and essay collections, including Bestiary Dark, The Anti-Grief, The Little Death of Self: Nine Essays toward Poetry, and a memoir, The Glimpse Traveler. Among her honors are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a Guggenheim and two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency, a Fulbright Senior Scholar appointment, and a Fulbright Visiting Professorship.

Preface
The Trouble Gene
Oh
Pilgrimage
Embarrassment
Spellcheck
Saint Kevin, Saint Blackbird
How to Dissect a Cadaver
Ah
In the Middle of Even This
Melodrama
Fugue Momentary
Instead Instead—on Ciaran Carson
Oh No
Shirt
“Bent as I Was, Intently”
In the Dreamtime
Unlimited
Middle Kingdom
Computer Blurs, Black-Outs, Audio Hiccups, and Stardust
The Great Silence
The Burning
Boredom
The Other Wordsworth
Secret Life
Audio
Adverbs or Not
Everything All at Once
Wild Blue Yonder
Poetics: A Statement
Poetry in the Plague Year
Cellular Change
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2024
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	284 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8101-4692-4 / 0810146924
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4692-1 / 9780810146921
Zustand	Neuware