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Translations from Bark Beetle
Jody Gladding
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Description for Translations from Bark Beetle
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, B&W photos throughout, B&W illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
In this inspired new collection, acclaimed poet and translator Jody Gladding takes the physical, elemental world as her point of inquiry, examining how language arises from landscape, and deriving a lexicon for these poems from the rich offerings of the world around her. In some poems, Gladding steps into the role of translator, interpreting fragments left by bark beetle or transcribing raven calls. In others, poems take the form of physical objects -- a rock, split slate, an egg, a feather -- or they emerge from a more expansive space -- a salt flat at the Great Salt Lake, or ... Read more
In this inspired new collection, acclaimed poet and translator Jody Gladding takes the physical, elemental world as her point of inquiry, examining how language arises from landscape, and deriving a lexicon for these poems from the rich offerings of the world around her. In some poems, Gladding steps into the role of translator, interpreting fragments left by bark beetle or transcribing raven calls. In others, poems take the form of physical objects -- a rock, split slate, an egg, a feather -- or they emerge from a more expansive space -- a salt flat at the Great Salt Lake, or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314550
SKU
V9781571314550
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About Jody Gladding
Jody Gladding's most recent poetry collection is Rooms and Their Airs (Milkweed Editions, 2009). Her translations include Jean Giono's Serpent of Stars and Pierre Michon's Small Lives. She has been a Yale Younger Poet, Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place, and has received a Whiting Writers' Award and Centre National du Livre de France Translation Grants. ... Read more
Reviews for Translations from Bark Beetle
Advance Praise for Translations from Bark Beetle "In her latest collection, Stegner Fellow and Yale Younger Poet Gladding sets out to interpret the world for us; what, for instance, are we to make of the marks left by the bark beetle
or an egg or a feather or the Great Lakes? Her language is refreshingly forthright and punchy."
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or an egg or a feather or the Great Lakes? Her language is refreshingly forthright and punchy."
Library Journal Praise ... Read more