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(0)Amanda Jernigan
1) Groundwork
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English
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The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeats's The Tower. The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the second by the Garden of Eden, the third by the waters and islands of Homer's Odyssey. Together they form a devastating critique of contemporary aesthetics. Few poets today are versed in the archetypes that inform the European tradition, and even fewer can...
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Language
English
Description
A transfiguration of Die Gemeinschaftliche Liedersammlung-a collection of Protestant hymns originally compiled by a Pennsylvanian-born Swiss-German Mennonite-into heart-breaking lyric poems that bridge secular spirituality and holy reverence with the commonalities of life, death, love, hope, and pain. With a quiet musicality, Jernigan explores the connection between hymn and poem, between death and birth. In a sparse and tender meditation on the...