The minuses : poems / Jami Macarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macarty, Jami, author.

Series:

Mountain west poetry series.

Mountain west poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins, Colorado : The Center for Literary Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"The Minuses invites us into borderlands battlegrounds between the myriad forms of domination and resistance. Desert, coasts, and interpersonal boundaries provide both context and figure. Destructive nor'easters pummel shorelines. The desert "waxes, waxes," continuing to exert itself. The population of raptor and carrion birds-owls, ravens, and vultures-increases, as human beings abuse one another and themselves under the aegis of patriarchy. Conjuring the literature of the desert, such as If There Were Anywhere But Desert by Egyptian-French writer and poet Edmond Jabes (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop), Desert Solitaire by American writer Edward Abbey, and Land of Little Rain by American writer Mary Austin, Jami Macarty's collection beckons attention to ecological and feminist issues and the co-incidence of eating disorders, sexual harassment, family violence, intimate-partner violence, homelessness, suicide, urban encroachment, endangered species, and other forms of disrespect and distress. Split and multi-perspective speakers claim voice from abusive relationships, dysfunctional families, gun deaths, as contemplators of natural splendors, and as seekers of incarnate desires. Multiple speakers amplify the endangerments predicating women's lives and the natural world, laying bare the struggle and faith necessary to endure with integrity and spirit intact. An aesthetic of eco-feminism defines The Minuses. The poems edge contained space, seeking pathways out of confinement created by relationship, danger, belief, and self. Each poem invites reflective emersion in the objects they contemplate. Through use of catalogue and the elliptical, Macarty activates "what's left open," catalyzing meditation upon the gaps, the missing, the elusive tension between background and foreground. These poems court reader engagement with the liminal, where the lyric meets language, linear narrative meets fragment, and certainty meets ambiguity. Welcome to the borderlands between definition and abstraction, between nature and innovation, between our aspiring selves and the weighty mandates of the patriarchy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

(The Minuses)

Flight Hours

Two-way

By Virtue of And

Thin Attachment

Sway

Through the Branches

Hunger

Site Record

Self-incompatible

Reverse of Shadow

Mountain Hypotenuse

Logic of Opposites

(Dedication)

Equals Rain

Door Ratio

Realm of Park

Territory of Men

Subway

Noreaster

An Equation Indivisible

Related Sequence

Epilogue

Family

Without Is Guide

Reap

The Calling

Given Distance from a Given Point

Between Earth and Sky

(Desert Opus)

Monsoon Desert

Resuscitation

Music 5: 30

Extremity

At Gravitys Feet

Mesquite

Owl

Desert Distances

Slow with Substance

Action of the Wind

Endangered Species

The Finder

Notes

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781885635723

1885635729

OCLC:

1129405889