Sight Map

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25876-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 96 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 134 g

Reihe: New California Poetry

In Sight Map Brian Teare blends the speculative poetics of the San Francisco Renaissance with a postconfessional candor to embody the "open field" tradition of such poets as Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. Teare provides us with poems that insist on the simultaneous physical embodiment of tactile pleasure—that which is found in the textures of thought and language—as well as the action of syntax. Partly informed by an ecological imagination that leads him back to Emerson and Thoreau, Teare's method and fragmented style are nevertheless up to the moment. Remarkable in its range, Sight Map serves at once as a cross-country travelogue, a pilgrim's gnostic progress, an improvised field guide, and a postmodern "pillowbook," recording the erotic conflation of lover and beloved, deity and doubter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teare, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

40:57:54 N/76:54L35 W
Emerson Susquehanna
To Be Two
Lent Prayer
As if from Letters of Surveyor Samuel Maclay
To Take the House out of Doors

42:53:6 N/71:57:17 W
Embodiment
Morphology
Theory of Trees
Spirit Photograph
The Word from His Mouth, It Is Perfect
Long After Hopkins

Pilgrim
The ravine a canoe,
Errant.
A type of spine.
Ash, birch, beech, pine.
Errant: Reply.
As being is to begin.
West to dust.
To drag about, to torment, to wallow,
Devotion,

37:48:9 N/122:15:4 W
Sanctuary, Its Root Sanctus
Thoreau Etude
Genius Loci
Abandoned Palinode for the Twenty Suitors of June
An Essay to End Pleasure

Acknowledgments
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Teare is the author of the award-winning The Room Where I Was Born, as well as the forthcoming volume Pleasure and two chapbooks. He has received Stegner, National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships.