Prometeo / C. Dale Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, C. Dale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (71 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Four Way Books, [2021]

Summary:

An unflinching reckoning with the traumas of one's life and those inherited through a history of exacted injustices "Some men find nothing, and others / find omens everywhere, " writes C. Dale Young in Prometeo, a collection whose speaker is a proverbial "child of fire." In poems that thrive off of their distinct voice, the speaker confronts generational and lived trauma and their relationship to his multi-ethnicity. We are presented with the idea of the past's burial in the body and its constellatory manifestations-both in the speaker and those around him-in disease and pain, but also in strength and a capacity for intimacy with others and nature. Grounded in precise language, Young's examination of the past and its injuries turns into a celebration of the self. In stark, exuberant relief, the speaker proclaims "...I was splendidly blended, genetically engineered / for survival." Resilient, Young's poems find beauty in landscape, science, and meditation.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright Page

Contents

For Its Blue Flickering

Portrait in Midnight Blue and a Widening Gyre

At Lake Merced

Transept

Mestizaje

The Point

Portrait in Salt and Dusky Carmine

Ammophila

Pastiche

The Call

In Plain Sight

Portrait in Azure and Twine Unravelling

Portrait in Purpura, Ice Plant, and Ecchymosis

False Start

Portrait in Sugar and Simple Prayer

Partially Right

Portrait in Seafoam and Offshore Lights

Portrait in Celadon and Hymenoptera

Portrait in Burnt Orange and Bitter Almonds

Las Palmas Reales

Precatio simplex

On Nomenclature

Cancer

Portrait in Ochre and Seven Whispers

Portrait in Graphite and Ornamental Hagiography

Prometeo

Portrait in Nightshade and Delayed Translation

Between the Dragon and the Phoenix

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.