B H Fairchild: An Ordinary Life, Kartoniert / Broschiert
An Ordinary Life
Buch
- Poems
lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
Aktueller Preis: EUR 17,95
- Verlag:
- W. W. Norton & Company, 09/2024
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781324086444
- Artikelnummer:
- 11794800
- Umfang:
- 72 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 45 g
- Maße:
- 203 x 135 mm
- Stärke:
- 8 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 24.9.2024
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked baseball fields to secondhand memories of a Second World War foxhole. They zoom in on a welder's truck, a superstore on Black Friday and a record store, where a chance encounter offers radiant kindness in the face of grief. In a suite of prose poems written in the returning persona of the machinist and philosopher Roy Eldridge Garcia, "a watcher of things", Fairchild finds sacred meaning in domestic scenes and expansive imagined narratives. Throughout, the poet evokes the brutal beauty of the American heartland, a morning's "sheet-metal sky" and a grandfather's farm, with its "dusty creek, damp / only when the winter wheat was bogged / in snow."Elevating blue-collar work and scenes from small towns in clear-eyed, reverent poetry, Fairchild proves himself once again "the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic" (The New York Times).

B H Fairchild
An Ordinary Life
Aktueller Preis: EUR 17,95