Miraculum Monstrum (eBook)

Kathline Carr (Autor)

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2017
Red Hen Press (Verlag)
9781597095983 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the Clarissa Dalloway "Everything But Poetry" Book Prize from the AROHO Foundation, Miraculum Monstrum is a speculative hybrid narrative with vivid images, centering on the life and work of a female artist afflicted with wings.

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Miraculum Monstrum is an epic hybrid narrative about Tristia Vogel, a female artist who experiences a radical physical transformation, beginning with the excrescence of apparent wings. Though she is possibly an anomalous mutation resulting from worldwide ecological upheaval, the bird/woman is co-opted by a religious cult that claims to have prophesied her experience; she is thus written as the central figure of their scriptural text. The fragmentary poem that is Miraculum Monstrum, which bears the same name as the fictitious codex quoted throughout, is presented within a catalog for an exhibit of visual artifacts and writings that chronicle this speculative history. The exhibition curator persona performs a duel function as narrative voice within the poem and critical commentator on the exhibit.

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“Enter in: here is that familiar moment when someone on the sidewalk, someone we maybe call schizophrenic, or deranged, yells out to her (our?) demons, or to eternity, to just leave her the fuck alone, and for once you hear it, and for once you agree, and wonder what would happen if everyone yelled out what they really felt, and why don’t they, and what’s lost in the silence. Enter: here is sadness and resistance and wings—a life (re)created, pieced together from the fragments we all become.”—Nick Flynn



“A visionary’s warning, a topographical map of the mind, a manual of survival in the face of apocalyptic odds. Kathline Carr’s Miraculum Monstrum imagined curatorial chronicle of Tristia Vogel’s metamorphosis is devastating—and transcendent.”—Jane Denitz Smith, playwright



“Miraculum Monstrum is a remarkably inventive, audacious debut collection that unfolds as poems, stories, fragments, drawings, paintings, mixed media pieces, and quotes to document and illustrate the life of Tristia Vogel, a visual artist who transforms dramatically and traumatically into a bird, and becomes an unintentional prophet. The setting is after a climate disaster; the language is skillful, playful, and sometimes somber. I love the deeply nuanced inquiry and dialogue between visual art and poetry! This book is a unique and brilliant contribution to contemporary dystopic literature.”—Jan Conn, author of Tomorrow’s Bright White Light



“Kathline Carr’s Miraculum Monstrum joins ranks with Gabriel García Márquez’s story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” and Remedios Varo’s painting, “Creation of the Birds,” among other significant works, in an artistic (oracular) tradition that invokes the artist-figure as bird, art-making as flight. The poetic voice and sheer inventiveness of this book as a response to our current environmental crisis is breathtaking. Its deft word-play tangles like filigree amid the heaviness of sickness. Miraculum Monstrum’s architecture, in its interplay of word and image, post-apocalyptic Ovidian myth, documentary fiction, feminist magical realism, taxonomy, and sensuousness, is a tour de force of hybrid poetics.”—Shira Dentz



"In Miraculum Monstrum, Kathline Carr chronicles the story of Tristia Vogel, an early twenty-first century painter who suffers a mutation that begins with a bony, featherlike protrusion from her scapula. Her condition defies diagnosis, and eventually brings her to full bird-body transformation, persecution and adoration, disaster and the joy of flight. Carr reaches far down and back into our deepest shared stories, of messianic hopes, apocalyptic-climactic disaster, and body-wracking metamorphosis, to move human imagination itself forward toward its own evolution and possible survival. Readers, like the pilgrims who flock to Tristia, will be 'leveled by a strange kindred impossible beauty' in these pages which piece the story together with poems, pieces of Tristia’s art, and all manner of records and responses to the story of her life. Miraculum Monstrum is truly visionary, an act of the imagination of mythic scope."—Diane Gilliam, author of Dreadful Wind & Rain and Kettle Bottom

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2017
• Verlagsort: Pasadena
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: anomalous mutation • bird woman • ecological upheaval • EPIC • Experimental • Female artist • fragmentary poem • fragmentary verse • hybrid narrative • Mutation • narrative, transformation, mutation, ecological upheaval, religious cult, speculative history, fragmentary verse, scraps of lore • physical transformation • Prophesy • Religious Cult • scraps of lore • scriptural text • Social commentary • speculative history • Visual artifacts
• ISBN-13: 9781597095983 / 9781597095983