Ice hours / Marion Starling Boyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyer, Marion Starling, author.

Series:

Wheelbarrow Bks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Ice Hours is a suite of poems set in majestic and severe Antarctica, chronicling the nearly forgotten story of the Ross Sea party. Weaving historical and scientific research into lilting verse, Marion Starling Boyer follows the adventurers who sailed on the Aurora at the beginning of World War I to support Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. These poems reveal the characters of the explorers and the conflicts they faced during the two years they labored to lay a chain of supply depots across the ice, unaware that Shackleton would never come because his ship, the Endurance, sank on the opposite side of the continent. The Ross Sea men battled frozen wastelands, scurvy, snow-blindness, starvation, hypothermia, and frostbite while their ship, the Aurora, was ice-trapped, marooning them without vital equipment, clothing, fuel, and food. Through lyric and formal poetic forms, Ice Hours brings to life the close of a heroic period interwoven with the brooding voice of the Antarctic continent, evoking themes of what occurs when humanity engages with the sublime.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

[Map]

Perhaps I Was Eden

One Audacious Idea

Dear Father

Southing

Penguins and Whales

Iceberg, Departing

The Sledging Commences

Relaying the Load

The Race to Minna Bluff

Last Night I Slept Like a Top

79° South, Minna Bluff Depot

A Glimpse of Hell

Dead Dog Trail

Waiting for Deliverance

Iced In

Spencer-Smith's Woodbines

Frostbite, Last Team on the Barrier

Learning Detachment

Sea Wolves

The Lay of the Land

Gladys Mackintosh

Wild's Hut Point Mixture

Butchering Seals in the Dark

Fell in the Pond

The Red Comet

Cape Evans Hut

Midwinter's Day, Cape Evans

We'll Do Our Damnedest

Beyond the Narwhal Gate

Two Hundred Fifty Miles Out, Nine Day Coal Supply

All My Flowers

After Four Months, Dawn

Parting Company on the Barrier

Rudderless

Snow-Blind, 79° S, Replenishing Supply Depots

Summer Begins, on the Aurora

Gladys Mackintosh, Advent

Hogmanay, on the Aurora

Black Flags to the Beardmore Glacier

The Golden Gateway, Final Depot 83° 31' S

Trapped Returning, the Twelve Day Blizzard

The Cold, Quiescent Eye

White Earth and Ruins

Richards

The Breath of Night

Five Men in a Three-Man Tent, Twenty-Eight Below Zero

Gladys Mackintosh, the Second Spring

Left Behind, Mack's Sixth Day on the Ice

Splice the Mainbrace

In the Dark Time

Seal Meat, Morning, Noon & Night

The Men Asleep at the Bottom of the World

Waste

Leaving Discovery Hut for Cape Evans

Gladys Mackintosh in the Garden

Marking Time

Ship Ho!

To Ice

Notes

Acknowledgments

Series acknowledgments

Back Matter.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781628954937

1628954930

9781609177256

1609177258

OCLC:

1350440876