Odessa. Patricia Kirkpatrick
Зарубежные стихи. Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
Odessa
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9781571318930
Автор произведения Patricia Kirkpatrick
Жанр Зарубежные стихи
Серия Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
Издательство Ingram
A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick’s Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the “emotional core of the self,” and central to the process of memory. In poems endowed with this emotional charge but void of sentimentality, Kirkpatrick sets out to recreate what was lost by fashioning a dreamlike reality. Odessa, “roof of the underworld,” a refuge at once real and imagined, resembles simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a mythical god-inhabited city. In image-packed lines bearing shades of Classical heroism, Kirkpatrick delivers a personal narrative of stunning dimension.