Refugia

Poems

Kyce Bello (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2019
University of Nevada Press (Verlag)
978-1-948908-34-4 (ISBN)

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Winner of the inaugural Interim 2018 Test Site Poetry Series Prize, Refugia is a bright and hopeful voice in the current conversation about climate change. Kyce Bello's stunning debut ponders what it means to inhabit a particular place at a time of enormous disruption, witnessing a beloved landscape as it gives way to, as Bello writes, "something other and unknown." These poems explore the author's home ground in Northern New Mexico and carefully observe nature's seasons in parallel with personal cycles of renewal and loss. The vivid and engaging poetry touches upon history, inheritance, dry rivers, mountains, and most of all, trees—be they Western conifer forests succumbing to climate change or family trees reaching simultaneously into the past and future. In doing so, Bello creates a connection between generations that underscores our most critical tool for survival: imagination.

Ultimately a dedication of resilience, Refugia creates a terrain of the imagination that is, like ecological terrain, grounded in image and yet many-layered and unresolved. This poetry is a listening that writes us back into an ecological language of place that is crucial to our survival in this time of environmental crisis.

Kyce Bello's poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, About Place Journal, Anomaly Literary Journal, The Raven Chronicles, Taos Journal of Poetry, and Sonora Review. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Part One:
Refugia (1)
Dear Future Child
The Ashram at Leigh Mill Road
Guide to Flowering Plants
The Trouble with Belief
Refugia (2)
The Tree Coroners
Message in a Bottle from the Sea of Cortez
Grail Story
Phrases in the Original Unspoken
Brief Guide to Epigenetic Memory with Burning Bosque
Refugia (3)
Paper Trail
Equinox
Grass Widow
In the Air Before Easer

Part Two:
Portrait of the Homemaker at Eighteen
I Wear Long Skirts for My Own Unwary Pleasure,
Refugia (4)
Notes to Future Botanists in Search of Conifers
The Speaker Reconciles with Spring
For the Record
Solar Pinholes
Gazing on the Mid-Morning in an Expression of Solidarity
Refugia (5)
Crossing Elwood Pass
The Washerwoman Maps Her Body Before Death
The Carp Pond
Dowsing
Refugia (6)
Field Notes

Part Three:
Rinconada
Summer Ends With Ringing
Landscape with River Restored to its Historic Channel After 100 Years
Refugia (7)
Fall Reckoning
When We Gathered to Stock up On Light
Cusp with Various Visitations
Our Names Unfurl Across Winter
Refugia (8)
Further Phrases in the Original Unspoken
Omega
Archipelago of Ancestral Bodies and Unnamed Landmarks of the Present
Refugia (9)
Waveform
Origin of the Apple
Right of First Refugium
Acknowledgements
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Test Site Poetry Series
Verlagsort	Reno
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 210 mm
Gewicht	155 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-948908-34-4 / 1948908344
ISBN-13	978-1-948908-34-4 / 9781948908344
Zustand	Neuware