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Lädt ... B/RDS (2023)von Béatrice Szymkowiak
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I received this as a LibraryThing ARC, which always makes things more difficult. I don't read poetry very often, let alone contemporary poetry, and I'm a little lost as to how to review this.B/RDS is a collection of poetry examining the "new environmental trajectory of the Anthropocene and our relationship with the other-than-human world." It uses both the text of Audobon's Birds of America and the author's—it is part archival, part imaginative—I should have loved it. This book didn't do it for me, unfortunately. It's extremely Literary (capital L). I watched the author do a reading of this work on YouTube to help me out a bit, and while it taught me how to read the work with all of its slashes, I found the text of the work often too obfuscated to enjoy much. To me, poetry is about experiencing feeling through concise language. I didn't feel much, because it was just too damn... difficult to parse! You know what I'm talking about. It's just always a little too vague, and somehow it's also always purposeful. It's MFA circlejerk work! I've always had issues with the scene and its output, so while it's not for me, maybe it's for you. Don't let my opinion tarnish you picking this up. I just don't think I'm the audience for it. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I really didn’t understand this book. I think the birds escaped from here too. This is simply cryptic. Sorry. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon's Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours. Prose poems written in the author's own words and prompted by the erasure process are also interspersed throughout the collection. These migratory poems, like ripples, trace the link between past and present and reveal the human-nature disconnect at the root cause of environmental and social problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Along its five movements, B/RDS also explores how we can reimagine our relationship to environment through language within new frameworks of interconnectedness. Thus, as the collection resists the distinction between nature and culture on which traditional nature poetry relies, it also acts as an ecopoetic manifesto. It suggests that a critical, lyrical poetry could contribute to ecological awareness by singing humanity back within nature"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorBéatrice Szymkowiaks Buch B/RDS wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeine
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Poems themselves were hit and miss with me. I'd say a quarter vaguely brought me any sort of imagery, meaning very little once finished. Another quarter were the opposite and quite vividly created a scene and feeling in my head. The rest were somewhere between those feelings. The first part and fourth were my favorites and most successful at creating a meaningful reading experience.
Overall if you're seeking poetry on nature and birds I'd maybe recommend this, at least a few poems would work for you. If you're not seeking that specifically, I would not recommend.
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