When the Horses (eBook)

Mary Helen Callier (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
71 Seiten
Alice James Books (Verlag)
978-1-949944-43-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In her award-winning debut, When the Horses, Mary Helen Callier explores the rich inner terrain of an imaginative childhood through deep and curious poems set against the uncanny beauty of the American South.As Walter Benjamin wrote: Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater, and it is in this bedraggled theater of memory that Callier stages her poems. A careful, curtained-off darkness lurks at their edges, actors appearing more in silhouette, evoking, often, the shape of a thing, the sound it makes, instead of the thing itself.Like all memories, these moments are fleeting. To read When the Horses is to see something nearly vanished, like trying to remember a dream hours after wakinga dream that haunts a wounded part of you, though you can't remember which. These are poems of encounterwith place, self, otherand the uncanny beauty that remains after loss.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: Coming of Age • Family • girlhood • History • Memory • Nature • relationships • the american south
• ISBN-10: 1-949944-43-3 / 1949944433
• ISBN-13: 978-1-949944-43-3 / 9781949944433