Scale
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2022
Carcanet Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80017-214-2 (ISBN)
Carcanet Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80017-214-2 (ISBN)
Mina Gorji's second collection is full of creatures and their habitats, building on the considerable achievement of her debut, Art of Escape.
A White Review Book of the Year 2022
At the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces
life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance,
temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic,
Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the
cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling.
Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star, Scale explores the
forms, conditions and frequencies of survival.
Scale builds on the considerable achievement of Gorji's first book, Art of Escape (2019). When it was selected for the Telegraph Poetry
Book of the Month, Tristram Fane Saunders wrote about the 'incisive
clarity' of Gorji's work, calling one poem 'perfection in miniature'.
Gorji's
poems feed into current ecological concerns, but in no conventional or
clichéd way. Marina Warner described her poems as 'building a place of
safety – for herself, her family, her readers, and all those who are
wandering and uprooted; her poetic methods take their cue from the many
marvellous creatures she evokes and the multiple protective measures
they adopt – nests, camouflage, mimicry, display. Above all, language
can help create shelter.'
A White Review Book of the Year 2022
At the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces
life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance,
temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic,
Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the
cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling.
Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star, Scale explores the
forms, conditions and frequencies of survival.
Scale builds on the considerable achievement of Gorji's first book, Art of Escape (2019). When it was selected for the Telegraph Poetry
Book of the Month, Tristram Fane Saunders wrote about the 'incisive
clarity' of Gorji's work, calling one poem 'perfection in miniature'.
Gorji's
poems feed into current ecological concerns, but in no conventional or
clichéd way. Marina Warner described her poems as 'building a place of
safety – for herself, her family, her readers, and all those who are
wandering and uprooted; her poetic methods take their cue from the many
marvellous creatures she evokes and the multiple protective measures
they adopt – nests, camouflage, mimicry, display. Above all, language
can help create shelter.'
Mina Gorji was born in Iran and lives in Cambridge. Her debut, Art of Escape (Carcanet, 2020), was a Telegraph 'Book of the Month'. Her poems were selected for the Forward Book of Poetry and Bloodaxe's Staying Human anthology. She has also written a study of John Clare's poetry, and essays on weeds, rudeness, little things and listening; a lyric-critical essay, 'Listening for Stars', was published in Poetry Review (2021). She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Pembroke College.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.07.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80017-214-1 / 1800172141 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80017-214-2 / 9781800172142 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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