Eleanor Chai

Standing Water (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A profound literary debut that recounts a child's singular story

Since I made you, you may

imagine I set myself on fire-
or better, say: you lit the funeral pyre
from ten thousand days away.

A young woman in Paris encounters an uncanny presence on a tour of a small museum. A study by Rodin of the dancer Little Hanako-titled Head of Sorrow-triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother, a mother erased from her life since childhood.

Thus begins Eleanor Chai's Standing Water, one of the most remarkable first books of poetry in recent years. It is a journey into the past as well as the present-into the narrative hidden from the poet since birth, as well as the strategies that she has adopted to survive. It is a journey about how we learn to cope with, to perceive and describe, the world. It is a story about savage privilege and deprivation.

Haunting the whole is the figure of the real Little Hanako-Rodin's model, a Japanese artist displaced in Europe, the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374714918
• Artikelnr.: 43968401

Autorenporträt

Eleanor Chai lives and works in Westport, Connecticut. She is the coeditor of Efforts of Affection: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore. Standing Water is her first collection of poetry.