Scavenger Loop : Poems

Scavenger Loop : Poems

Baker, David

Editorial Norton
Fecha de edición febrero 2017 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780393353471
112 páginas
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Resumen del libro

In this masterful new work by "the most moving and expansive poet to come out of the American Midwest since James Wright" (Marilyn Hacker), David Baker constructs a layered natural history of his beloved Midwest and traces the complex story of human habitation from family and village life to the evolving nature of work and the mysterious habitats of the heart. At the centre of Scavenger Loop is a sustained investigation of cycles and the natural recycling of things and a discovery that even out of the discarded and the lost may come rebirth and renewal. In the process Baker reveals how everything bears the potential to be both invasive and life-giving: plants that beautify and conquer, chemicals that heal and destroy, words that mislead and instruct.

Widely praised for his "impeccable formalism" (Booklist), Baker pushes to new stylistic methods, moving fluidly between unity and disorder, working at times in sustained narratives and intricate syllabics, at other times in fragments, cross-outs, and erasures. These poems praise and sing but are also clear-eyed in their documentation of destruction, the loss of human livelihood and natural habitat, the spreading threat of agri-business and unchecked development. From eco-poetics to the erotic, Scavenger Loop measures the dimensions of the pastoral and the elegy in contemporary lyric poetry.

Biografía del autor

David Baker es un reconocido escritor, conferenciante y divulgador, especializado en historia y ciencia. Ha obtenido el primer doctorado en la disciplina emergente Big History (o Gran Historia), bajo la tutela de su fundador, David Christian. Colaborador en la Macquarie University y la Universiteit van Amsterdam, es también profesor invitado en la Université de Paris IV, Paris-Sorbonne. Creó la serie de YouTube Crash Course Big History, en colaboración con el Big History Project, fundado por Bill Gates y David Christian.





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