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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2018-10-30
- ISBN
- 9780809336838
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809336839
ISBN-13
9780809336838
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242377371
Product Key Features
Book Title
Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-010149
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"These are poems to keep close, to hold in case of emergency. When we are brought to our knees--whether by ruin or by grace, by the news or by the day's little disasters, or by our own foolish hearts--Berlin's Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live , all big-mouthed love and patient tending--to sorrow, to memory, to language--abides."--Beth Marzoni, coauthor of No Shape Bends the River So Long "To read Monica Berlin's Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live is to reexamine the world we know through adversity and loss instead of a pair of eyes--everything is more intricate, everything is that much more concentrated and unbelievable in the memoried spaces of these precise, elegant poems. Nostalgia suggests longing, but these poems create new, unexplored experiences from what we understand of memory's bigger insistences: tributaries of recollections and gestures that remind us that where we are now is almost as important as where we've been. In these poems, every tiny detail is part of the larger circumstance of human need. Each remembrance spins like a song from a lost record while Berlin lets us hear everything--the immaculate static, the rippling grooves of want, and the unavoidable fulfillment that follows."--Adrian Matejka, author of Map to the Stars and The Big Smoke "I still remember, vividly, the first time I encountered a Monica Berlin poem. I could not stop talking about it, much less forget it: the abundance and intelligence in its lines, its psychologically-charged attention to Midwestern landscape, its unswerving outward gaze, and ultimately the poet's fierce and admirable heart. I loved reading every page of this book."--Katrina Vandenberg, author of The Alphabet Not Unlike the World and Atlas "This book asks essential questions about the world we live in, a world defined by disaster, in which the speaker finds herself 'stunned silent or stunned angry / or just stunned.' There is a beloved child, who a mother realizes will 'go on without us.' There is a dead father who haunts every landscape. Most of all, there is the news--towns are swallowed by floods, levees are breached, cities burned, and earthquakes wreck the earth. And yet there is not only grief but vivid joy. This is a book about how to navigate a life and how to raise a child in a world that is both brutal and beautiful."--Nicole Cooley, author of On Marriage and Breach, "These are poems to keep close, to hold in case of emergency. When we are brought to our knees--whether by ruin or by grace, by the news or by the day's little disasters, or by our own foolish hearts--Berlin's Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live , all big-mouthed love and patient tending--to sorrow, to memory, to language--abides."--Beth Marzoni, coauthor of No Shape Bends the River So Long
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Table Of Content
CONTENTS Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live 1 What a year looks like: drenched. So soggy here. So much No apples on the apple tree this summer, & if there were Another late summer early quiet blue-skied morning, my son On either end of this year, on either end of every goddamn year, When we turn the calendar's page, my little boy looking The dark flurry of another morning purred This afternoon the sky's making the kind of promises it can Days the hours are no more fact than the unbelievable Sometimes being here is like To scale, yes, days to scale, even when they grow so cluttered Just before the blood draw the other morning, I filled in small We loved the rush hour most, the cars suit-filled, briefcase-heavy, Today, three flights up, with my whole body, I lifted Some disasters are given names, others called after The truth is I have trouble forgiving most things, although I've never minded By rote the body learns nearly everything, after It's true. There are places we'd rather be Not quite another season, but almost, & on the window ledges, How I wish more things I read I misread, like the bodies in the mine Because you're still in another time zone disparate things The problem is the revolving door, this Because I wasn't thinking peninsula If there's a joke more complicated than "knock-knock," more Too lazy to lip-read in noisy rooms, the other night A kind of stutter, that over & Down the hall the accordion man turns into a door Long before the horse pulls up lame there is the matter Back to this wind, up against it even, The linens soften, now threadbare, just as I'm waking, small, in this When morning was almost unrecognizable as morning What the wind kicks up, what the waters trouble, even The forecast's calling for flurries tomorrow, & worry At the new year, in the dark, I watched time The lesson tonight nothing less than In this, this snow-brightened light of a near-spring morning, I think of his glass How quickly the body, when asked, forgets Stay mouthed through How quiet every end when it comes, briefest glimpse of a future If all the love we'll know is the kind of love Because all day the sky held back Not only the night Notes Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Monica Berlin's Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live resides at the turbulent confluence of relentless news cycles and the repeated rending of our interior lives. In Berlin's poetry sorrow makes its own landscape--solitary, intimate, forward-looking. Whether we attempt to traverse it or choose bypass, her poems show us where we live, how we carry on. These poems notice the day in the wind, the night tucked up to the train tracks, and a slipping-in of yesterday, memory-laden, alongside the promise of a more hopeful tomorrow. Here is the Midwest, vibrant and relic, in the ongoing years of collapse and recovery. Here the constant companionship of weather lays claim to its own field of vision. Here, too, devastation: what's left after. Berlin reminds us we are at the mercy of rivers, oceans, earth, wind, rain, blizzard, drought, and each other. "Maybe what I mean / to say is that I've come to see all the names we might / recognize destruction by," Berlin's speaker discovers. "We might / sometimes, stupidly, call it love ." On her familiar prairie of lyricism and tumult, beauty and ruin, Berlin's poems insist, plead, and seek to reassure. In a collection both mournful and urgent, both a "little book of days" and a song, this poet meditates on loss, wonder, and always the consolations of language., Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live resides at the turbulent confluence of relentless news cycles and the repeated rending of our interior lives. In Berlin's poetry sorrow makes its own landscape--solitary, intimate, forward-looking.
LC Classification Number
PS3602.E75776N67
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- e***u (282)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe listing was for a hardcover version of this book; however, I received a paperback. The Seller replied quickly to my question about this issue and issued a full refund - and let me keep the book. So, a diligent Seller for sure - and well packaged and reasonable timing on shipping. Thank you for the refund, and as you suggested, I'll likely donate this volume and seek the hardcover.
- e***n (392)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat transaction, exactly as described, packed well, and promptly shipped on August 6th. Unfortunately the U.S. Postal Service took 23 calendar days to deliver the book. It was shipped from Pennsylvania, to Atlanta, past Alabama to Texas, enjoyed several days in Texas, then to Minneapolis, Jacksonville, Florida, back to Atlanta, finally to Birmingham, and Huntsville. The seller was very responsive and I decided it was interesting to see if/how the book would arrive. Thanks, Joe
- 0***g (380)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent purchase. Was able to get all three items from the one seller. Seller was able to bundle all three items together into one package. Items as described and arrived in perfect condition. Good communication around shipping and tracking as items delayed and not able to be delivered by original estimate. Thanks to shipping updates I was able to track the items arriving before the extended delivery time. Thank you for making these items available on EBay.