Songs from the Blue River / Paul Kingsnorth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingsnorth, Paul, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors.

English literature--Irish authors--21st century.

English literature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

53 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cilffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland : Salmon Poetry, 2018.

Summary:

These poems give voice to the land and its inhabitants, both human and non-human. Mountains, rivers, lakes, glaciers, starlings, earthworms, oak trees: all have their say, as do the humans who live with and through them. The struggle to be human in a world which is alive with myth, magic and strange, wild energies is the thread running through this collection. Many of its poems were written in the wilds of Patagonia, and their rhythms are influenced by the song of that wild landscape. Kingsnorth is a novelist, poet, and essayist; the author of two novels and three books of non-fiction. He is co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, an international network of writers and artists searching for new stories for an age of upheaval. He lives in Ireland.

Contents:

Abrazo p. 11

Vodadahue Mountain p. 12

Isla de los Muertos p. 13

The Testament of Edward Abbey p. 14

Drystone p. 15

Dawn p. 16

Swarm p. 18

Murmuration p. 19

In the presence of gods not mine p. 20

Free black earth p. 21

Necessary murder p. 22

Men who die in cars p. 23

Wretched of the Earth p. 24

Faces at the window p. 25

Blood p. 26

Songs from the Blue River p. 27

A mathematics p. 37

The mystery p. 38

Peening the blade p. 39

The chain p. 40

Small victory p. 41

Sparrow p. 42

The mines p. 43

Ambulando p. 44

Death mask p. 45

Ending p. 46

Nothing else p. 47

Inquisition p. 48

In which p. 50.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781912561100

1912561107

OCLC:

1035430396

Publisher Number:

99982861309