The New World [electronic resource] : Infinitesimal Epics

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서명/저자사항	The New World [electronic resource]: Infinitesimal Epics.
개인저자	Carelli, Anthony.
발행사항	Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
형태사항	1 online resource (0 p.).
총서사항	Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets Ser. ;v.163
ISBN	9780691218816 0691218811
일반주기	Description based upon print version of record.
내용주기	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Proem -- I -- Dante Jokes in Peshtigo -- The Buck -- Charlie at Full Speed -- Octet 9 -- Where the Green Ants Dream -- II -- The New World -- The New World -- Old Trees Wave -- The New World -- A New Word -- III -- The New Horizons Spacecraft Speeds Past Pluto in What We May Call the Blink of an Eye -- Country Canto -- White Mountain Song -- The New World -- American Homeric -- IV -- Revolutionary Word -- In Exodus -- Osip in August -- Fire Watcher -- Old Lines -- Notes
요약	From an "uncommonly fluent" and "rewarding" poet (The Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems, is an American travelogue that unfolds in a series of darkly comic episodes, with allusions to Dante as a thread throughout. In these epics in miniature, we meet a pilgrim-poet as he awaits the arrival of his child, a would-be Columbus, on the shores of a land "disenstoried" by explorers present and past. It's a land and a people largely lost in mindscapes and mythscapes, haunted by sketchy aspirational visions, misbegotten misremembering, and emptiness. Nonetheless, the poet steps out to the shore to sing for the child--and reader--to do what Columbus never did: "land gently. / And listen and / listen and listen / and stay." Constantly unsettling the rhetoric of inherited forms, the poet shaping these poems is always bound to the pilgrim, who cannot pretend to dissolve our purgatories but can only invite us--as a latter-day Virgil would--deeper into the uncanny encounters that encircle us. From an Arizona nursing home and a grandmother's memory of a stolen golden Schwinn in the occupied Philippines, to a tale of road-tripping west through Pennsylvania as sunrise transpires in the wrong sky, The New World opens strange spaces for us to re-see, lament, and re-sing the stories we tell.
일반주제명	American poetry --21st century. POETRY / American / General.
분류기호(DDC)	811.6
언어	영어
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