Seed Celestial

Sara R. Burnett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

92 Seiten

2022
Autumn House Press (Verlag)
978-1-63768-052-0 (ISBN)

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Poems reflecting on contemporary political issues, mythological origins, and the capacity for hope in the face of uncertain futures.

This collection weaves together themes of motherhood, immigration, social transformation, and interrogation. Throughout Seed Celestial, Sara R. Burnett writes haunting reflections on origins—of myth and memory, language and country, earth and mothers—as she looks to an uncertain future.

Bringing together contemporary issues of climate change, gun violence, and feminism while working from her own experience of raising a young daughter, she writes, “You were inside my body / while I was outside; / outside was everything else.” Burnett vividly renders her own origin story as an immigrant’s daughter using the myths of Demeter and Persephone. This book is a love letter to the earth the way only a mother can write it: appreciating all its faults while seeing its beauty. Burnett offers a poetry collection that is tender, and honest, akin to having an intimate conversation with a friend who tells us what we know to be true about ourselves, our twin capacities for love and violence, and what we don’t. She intertwines our violent, complicated world with the uncanny human capacity for hope and describes the awe of a world recreating itself again and again while wondering about all we lose and leave behind, especially for the next generation.

Seed Celestial is the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Eileen Myles.

Sara R. Burnett is the author of Seed Celestial, winner of the 2021 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Mother Tongue, a poetry chapbook (Dancing Girl Press, 2018), and has published poems and essays in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Matter, PANK, and elsewhere. A finalist for the 2019 Enoch Pratt Free Library poetry award and a recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland and an MA in English Literature from the University of Vermont. She lives in Maryland with her husband and children.

I. SEED
Ab Ovo
Theory of Probability I
Primary Source
Demeter’s Remorse
Dancing in a Dark Room
Hemingway’s Homes

II. ANIMAL
Endling
Fish (in) Tanks
Last Chance to See
Demeter’s Wager
Body, A Field
Field, A Body
Abuelo Mió
American Robin

III. WORD
Pupusas at St. Camillus Church
Ethnic Arithmetic
Mi Negrita
English II
Blur I
Blur II
Dear Shame, Dear Sludge
After Viewing Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Blue Armchair Without My Ex
Cherchez la Femme

IV. EARTH
Little Shadow
After Viewing Cassatt’s The Oval Mirror with my Daughter Sleeping
Next to Me
Letter to Another Mother with Excerpts from the Handbook on Mothering
Student Handbook
Demeter Remembering
What Was to Keep the Tigers at the Zoo

V. CELESTIAL
Why I No Longer Wear My Mother’s Ring
Here and There a Thing That Glitters
Nest
Use Bottom Cushion for Flotation Device
After the Storm
El Regreso
Persephone Remembering
Theory of Probability II

Notes
Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2022
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	179 x 233 mm
Gewicht	174 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-63768-052-X / 163768052X
ISBN-13	978-1-63768-052-0 / 9781637680520
Zustand	Neuware