System of Ghosts / by Lindsay Tigue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tigue, Lindsay, author.

Series:

Iowa Poetry Prize

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 p.)

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In System of Ghosts, Lindsay Tigue details the way landscape speaks to isolation and personhood, how virtual and lived networks alter experience. She questions how built environments structure lives, how we seek out information within these spaces, and, most fundamentally, how we love.Rooted in the personal, the speaker of this collection moves through society and history, with the aim of firmly placing herself within her own life and loss. Facts become an essential bridge between spatial and historical boundaries. She connects us to the disappearance of species, abandoned structures, and heartbreak-abandoned spaces that tap into the searing grief woven into society's public places. There is solace in research, one system this collection uses to examine the isolation of contemporary life alongside personal, historical, and ecological loss. While her poems are intimate and personal, Tigue never turns away from the larger contexts within which we all live. System of Ghosts is, at its core, an act of reaching out-across time, space, history, and across the room.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; I.; II.; III.; Notes; Millions; Directions; Solitary, Imaginary; How to Adjust to Time Zones; City of Light; The Trajectory of Oranges; Bliss; Abandoned Places; Adapted; Little Grand Canyon in Yellow; Elevator; We are a System of Ghosts; Convergent Boundaries; How to Care for Buffalo Horns; History of Rooms; Abandoned Places; Michigan Central Station Has Been Closed Since 1988; For the Ghost You Might Become; Leap; To Disappear in Michigan; My Dad's Brother Called Every Year for Five Years Then Disappeared; Strange Ducks; New Year; Canopic Jars

Abandoned PlacesDrop; Frontier Airlines; The Center of the Earth is a Little Off Kilter; E-How; How to Measure the Weight of Snow; The Body Travels; Neighbors; Huron; Linear Foreign Bodies; White-Nose Syndrome; Progress Without End; Abandoned Places; Interview Practice; Minor Planets; Alms for the Birds; Needs Assessment

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 71).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781609384029

1609384024

OCLC:

939553436