Melissa Kwasny

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven seriesone of linked prose poems called Another Letter to the Soul and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal. The volume speaks to and questions the ancient concept of the soul and its contemporary manifestations, including the damaged soul, the American soul, and the blind, gagged soul of history.

Melissa Kwasny does not define the soul in traditional religious terms, but in a shamanic, perhaps ecological sense, as the part of being that continues its existence after death. The poems in Another Letter to the Soul point inward, addressing the human soul directly, while the individual lined poems search outward, sensing the soul in the plants, animals, rocks, waters, and winds that surround us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295742458
• Artikelnr.: 49268806

Autorenporträt

Melissa Kwasny is the author of six collections of poems, including  Pictograph, Reading Novalis in Montana, and The Nine Senses, which contains a set of poems that won the Poetry Society of America's 2009 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. A portion of Pictograph received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, judged by Ed Roberson. Kwasny also has a nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: Animals and Our Clothing, forthcoming from Trinity University Press. She has edited multiple anthologies, including Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry, 1800-1950 and, with M. L. Smoker,  I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. Widely published in journals and anthologies, Kwasny's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review, and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral. She lives outside of Jefferson City, Montana, in the Elkhorn Mountains.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
The Hide and Skin Handbook
1. The Deer People
2. Another Letter to the Soul
3. The Blue Heron People
4. Another Letter to the Soul
5. The Hawk People
6. Another Letter to the Soul
7. The Creek People
8. Another Letter to the Soul
Notes and Acknowledgments
About the Author