Terra Incognita

Poems

Sara Henning (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

84 Seiten

2022
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2475-9 (ISBN)

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These masterful elegies follow the contours of a troubled mother-daughter relationship, explore the paradoxes of mourning, and relish the complicated joys of perseverance to map not only how one makes sense of the world but also how one reenters it after experiencing a transformative loss.
Divided into four sections, this poignant collection begins with "Terra Inferna," which chronicles a single mother's attempt to raise her daughter in 1980s rural Georgia. "Terra Incognita" follows the daughter's journey across states, out of devastating poverty, and into a loving marriage, as her mother loses her battle with colon cancer. In "Terra Nova," the speaker meditates on her mother's passing, her crisis of meaning turning to revelation of legacy's love. "Terra Firma" brings closure, as the speaker reconciles her grief while rediscovering how to find joy in life's small moments.

Sara Henning is the author of View from True North, cowinner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award. Her honors include the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, and awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in journals such as Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Crazyhorse, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. She lives and writes in Huntington, West Virginia, where she teaches at Marshall University.

I. Terra Inferna
Terra Inferna
Elegy with Saltwater Taffy
Queening
Mom’s Eggs
Elegy Beginning with the Birth of a Mountain
God of the Kitchen Window
French Fries
Smoking in the Car
Cancer
Here Be Dragons
II. Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita
Elegy for the Color Pink
Once, I Prayed in the Water
Woman in Flames
The Boy
God, You Are a Muscadine
Still Life with Smoke
Elegy with Blueberries
Death Buried the Daughter I Was
What the Time-Share Man at the Westgate Hotel Tried to Sell Me
III. Terra Nova
Terra Nova
IV. Terra Firma
Terra Firma
Last Stash
Traitor Angels
Mercy Villanelle
Elegy in the Shape of a River
Weather Haibun
They Call Her Mi Corazon
My Mother Comes Back as a Dragonfly
Cherishing
Winter Gazebo
Acknowledgments
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	0-8214-2475-0 / 0821424750
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2475-9 / 9780821424759
Zustand	Neuware