West, fire, archive : poems / Iris Jamahl Dunkle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunkle, Iris Jamahl, author.

Series:

Mountain West Poetry Series

Mountain West Poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London, Charmian--Poetry.

London, Charmian.

London, Jack, 1876-1916--Poetry.

London, Jack.

West (U.S.)--Poetry.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2021]

Summary:

"West : Fire : Archive is a poetry collection that challenges preconceived, androcentric ideas about biography, autobiography, and history fueled by the western myth of progress presented in Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier thesis." The first section focuses on mending the erasure of the life of Charmian Kittredge London, the wife of the famous author Jack London, a woman who broke gender norms, traveled the world, and wrote about it. The second section examines the act of autobiography (or what defines the author). In it, Dunkle writes through the complex grief of losing her mother and her community when it is devastated by wildfires and reflects on how these disasters echo the one that brought her family to California, the Dust Bowl. The third section questions the authenticity of the definition of recorded history as it relates to the American West"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Biography

Listening to the Caryatids on the Palace of Fine Arts

The Year He Was Born

Sweatshop, Oakland, 1911

Origin Story: Father, 185166

Origin Story: Mother, 1870

The Curious Incident with the Horse, Charmian, Age 14

Truth Walks the Plank, San Francisco, 18901900

Artifact

Girl with a Gun Goes Anyway, Malaita, 1909

Make Them Float in Your Mouth

Bad Penny

Off Tahiti, December 26, 1907

Hands in Your Pockets

On Seeing the Red Bird off the Coast of Argentina

A Ship Is a Dream in a Snowstorm

Hole in the Sky

Instructions for Sailing around Cape Horn, 1912

Curse

Lost Bodies

About my neck was hung

Sailor on Horseback

Ghost Oak

His Elegy

November

Dark Albums

What the Water Wants

Smiling into the Ruins of Wolf House

The Water Cell Escape

The House [with] Happy Walls

Disaster on the Mountain

Grave

Stroke

House Empty Speaks Loud a Truth, 2018

Autobiography

Directions Home after the Firestorms, 2017

Ashes than Dust

Sunk

Acceptance Speech, or How to Be a Martyr

After the Seventh Night of the Northern California Wildfires

Poem for the Lost Summer

You, who I could not save, listen to me.

Free to Rise

Ground Truthing after the Great Fires

Artists Speak of the Elements

Breaking Trail after a Great Fire, Clover Dairy, Sonoma, California

After the Disaster: Santa Rosa

Anniversary

Communion of Dust

Tioga Pass and My Okie Heritage

Under Campestral Skies

Sinkhole

Recorded History

Archive (a Duet)

History of the Indian Wars as Seen from the 1980s

The Map

Mission San Francisco Solano

Field Guide to the Lost Species of California

Frontier: A Definition

River, Speak

Dream-Time History of America

The Winter of 184647

What We Left Behind Was Corporeal

Daphnes Broken Sonnet

Breaking Trail at Roxborough State Park, Colorado

Heliacal Rising

Notes

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Title appears on the title page with each word separated by a space-colon-space. Commas added for clarity.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-885635-77-X

OCLC:

1202732828