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Console / Colin Channer.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.H2735 C66 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Channer, Colin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.
- Local Subjects:
- Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.
- Genre:
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet's childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem's meditations on reggae, religion, marriage, justice, and transgressions in the home. With allusive links to photography, music, sea mammals, mistranslation, and the universal ritual of 'the walk,' Console reorganizes our sense of time, collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain, renames the familiar, reaches for settled etymologies, and turns words inside out." -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Part I. Spumante
- Shunting from Dakar to Casamance
- How Long Could I Have Been Weightless?
- Lent
- Mostly Hamburg, 1972
- Dub
- Bubble
- Oreja
- Console
- On Sugar and the Carnival of War
- Notes on a Minor Prophet
- Unconsoled
- Roots
- The Fat Man Spoke of Fish
- The Fixed Mutability of Things
- Bedazzled
- Redoubt
- Part II: Hurricane Suite. Acts 8:26-40 in Dub ("Ask for What You Want")
- Tetto
- Eye
- Bunch
- The Sea and Its Creatures
- Trouble on the Road Again
- Legend
- Aftermath
- Part III. Picturebook Brockton
- Ready ; Espoleta ; Star ; Lough
- Part IV. Barn
- Mons of Luke Al Dente
- All the Kin-ness in Foil Shrouds
- New Kingston
- Farfetching
- The Vendor of New Hearts
- Glaze Eyed at the Humble Shapings
- In Fuguing Wake.
- ISBN:
- 9780374607227
- 0374607222
- OCLC:
- 1345220280
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