A Careful Hunger (eBook)

Poems

Judy Young (Autor)

John K. Young (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
72 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7786-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Judy Young (19402015) was a gifted but private poet. Over the years, she established provisional collections of her best work but refrained from seeking publication due to her trepidation with sharing her deeply personal poems with an audience. She found her voice in a collective group of creatives that included Susan Starr Richards, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, and the late Donna Boyd, Jane Gentry, Audrey Robinson, and Carolyn Hisel. This illustrious circle of friends met monthly for almost thirty years and gave her the courage to share her worka lyrical medley of pain, beauty, strength, and redemption. Revealed is the story of a woman's inner lifean intimate tale of abuse and personal struggle from a traumatic childhood through marriage, parenthood, and lifelong friendships. Based on the final manuscript that was drafted before the author's death, this compilation traces the path of a woman finding her poetic voice in middle age, returning to an often-harrowing upbringing while closely observing the natural worldespecially the populations of birds moving through the space between her back porch and the lake belowand meditating on the nature of creativity. With a submerged narrative behind the poems and several calls to nature through repeated motifs, the poet shares seminal emotions and experiences. A Careful Hunger is the last creative testament of this extraordinary artisther final act of fearlessness in a troubled yet joyful life. In the words of the poet: "e;I am alive and must say so / one way or another."e;

Autor

Judy Young (1940–2015) was a graduate of Transylvania University and later earned an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. John K. Young is a professor in the English department at Marshall University, specializing in histories of textual production in the American and British literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is the author of Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature, How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O'Brien's Process of Textual Production, and the coeditor, with George Hutchinson, of Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850.

Inhalt

Foreword
A Note on the Text
Blue Kitchen with East Window
History
Brightness
Little Girl, Little Girl
Secrets
Music
Photograph, 1952
Not My Life
Snowlight
The Dark Room
What She Wants
Blackbird Poem
Cicadas
The Conspirator
Drought
The Geometric Progression of Sadness
Stillbirth
The Persimmon Tree
Notebook: Allusion to Images
Blue Paper
Recovering from Joy
Song for Which There Are No Words
A Scientific Education
The Silent Ships
My Paradise Varies
I Can Feel My Bones
If Mykonos
Red Curry
The Burning Woman
Not Looking Back
Carousel
Cold October Morning
Revolutionary Music
Lost
Deer on the Highway
Turning
The Sun
From the Bath
Swinging Statues
This Poem Keeps Disappearing
Child at the Edge of the World
Such Existence
Way In or Way Out
On the Front Porch
The Apple
The Road
Light Years
The Moth
The End of My Life
Migration
Night Journey

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.10.2019
• Vorwort: Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Susan Starr Richards
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Abuse • Childhood • Friendship • marriage • Nature • nature poetry • parenthood • poems about childhood • Poems about nature • poetry about abuse and trauma • posthumous publication • Trauma • Women's Lives
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7786-3 / 0813177863
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7786-1 / 9780813177861