Nighthawks

Lisa Martin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

116 Seiten

2026
University of Alberta Press (Verlag)
9781772128550 (ISBN)

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In Nighthawks, Lisa Martin traces a creaturely interconnectedness, traversing land, ecology, and other boundaries amidst crises unfolding at a global scale.

In Nighthawks, Lisa Martin traces a creaturely interconnectedness, traversing land, ecology, and other boundaries amid crises unfolding at a global scale. These poems parse aspects of human embodiment—emotion, relationship, mortality—and reflect on how to live through moments of intense personal and political upheaval. Long verses about the remnants of marriage and divorce, and a sonnet cycle about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, sit alongside lyrical explorations of midlife loneliness, mothering, and grief. Philosophical ruminations on form and language are also present, asking what good is a poem, a verse, in a world so full of things one might hold an aversion to? “What if I write a line, follow it in, what if / the line tears what I didn’t mean to open?” Martin’s experimental collection engages in exquisite emotional truth-telling, asking how we can hold and tend the world with more attunement and care.

Lisa Martin is an award-winning poet and essayist. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, One Crow Sorrow and Believing is Not the Same as Being Saved and a co-editor of How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss. Her work has received the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award for Poetry, an Independent Publishers (IPPY) award, and a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism. She was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize in 2018. Her most recent works are Creative Writing in Post-Secondary Education: Practice, Pedagogy, and Research, a blend of memoir and scholarly review, and A Story Can Be Told About Pain, her first novel. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory.

Staying Power
I.
False Awakening
Frog Rain
Escape Room
Crashing the Floodgates
Tabula Rasa
Flotsam and Jetsam
The Thrill of the Find
Blood Concordance
Equinox in the Crystal Forest
A Portrait Made of Seaweed
I’m Not Being Hard on Myself, You’re Being Hard on Yourself
Onism for Beginners
If You’re Anything Like Me
At the Oracle of Delphi
Be Someone Who Would Have Been Burned at the Stake 500 Years Ago
Aesthetics
II.
Zagajewski
Three Years, Two Months and Twelve Days after My Father Dies Overseas
Mountain Concordance
Communique from the Fortunate Islands
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Epithalamion
Loss Isn’t so Important
Moon Phasery
Ghazal with Malbec, No Cigarettes
The Pomegranate Year
Spring Poem Ending With a Line from Roo Borson
Ulcerative Colitis Remission Conditional
Winter Solstice
Unboxing Day
Self-Portrait as Demolished Supermarket
Hauntological
Artifact Inventory
Disassembly Line
III.
Whatever It Takes
The Fish Trees
Communique from Atlantis
Bloorcourt Elegy
Yes, And
Against “The Road Not Taken”
Modern Miracles
How the Moon Invents Memory
Cloud Concordance
Still, Life
Anabasis
If You Dwell on a Grave While out of Breath
Sea Grief
Marriage Tales
Minor Worries
Marvelosity
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New Year’s Day Lament
Living Will
Between Falling to Earth and Floating In Space
Sublunary
Notes
Acknowledgments

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Robert Kroetsch Series
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-13	9781772128550 / 9781772128550
Zustand	Neuware