By Cynthia Huntington

ISBN-10: 0809335751

ISBN-13: 9780809335756

In this daring and impressive book-length poem, nationwide booklet Award finalist Cynthia Huntington explores exile and migration—what it ability to lose, search, and locate domestic in all its iterations—through a polyphonic paintings, written in a number of voices and evoking the tactic of Hart Crane’s The Bridge or the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses. but it's also a difficult and vernacular paintings, owing as a lot to Patti Smith and the conflict because it does to excessive Modernism.

Again and back the paintings exhibits us outsiders compelled into metaphorical and literal wildernesses, no matter if in a retelling of the biblical Israelites misplaced within the desolate tract or in tales from Provincetown, Massachusetts, the place the hot international struggles into being on the fringe of the ocean. but the voices the following, throughout again and again and locations, refuse to provide in to desolation and despair.

Huntington’s procedure is hybrid, oscillating among verse and lyrical prose to create a piece that falls someplace among an epic poem and a set of lyric essays. even if chronicling the production of the area and the 1st exile from the Judeo-Christian backyard of Eden or imagining the phobia and thrill of the 1st sea voyages, this is often electrical poetry: hard, startling, and fulfilling.

 

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