Island of Lost Luggage (First Book Awards)
An award-winning poetry collection that links personal and political violence through images of Central America, nature, and domestic conflict.
Work Information
An award-winning collection of poetry that forges links among violence and resistance.
Janet McAdams's debut poetry collection traces surprising connections among war in Central America, abuses against nature, and the battleground of the bedroom. The University of Arizona Press identifies it as the poetry winner of the 1999 First Book Awards competition of the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas and as an American Book Award winner.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Arizona Pr
- Published
- 2000-08-01
- Pages
- 74 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 0.76 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780816520565
- ISBN-10
- 0816520569
- Price
- 4053 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
" . . . at the Island of Lost Luggage, they line up: the disappeared, the lost children, the Earharts of modern life. It's your bad luck to die in the cold wars of certain nations. But in the line at Unclaimed Baggage, no one mourns for the sorry world that sent them here . . ." The abused. The oppressed. The terrified victims of institutionalized insanity. Making daring connections between the personal and the political, Janet McAdams draws new lines in the conflict between the new and old worlds as she redefines the struggle to remain human. This award-winning collection of poetry forges surprising links among seemingly unrelated forms of violence and resistance in today's world: war in Central America, abuses against Nature, the battleground of the bedroom. McAdams evokes the absurdity of everyday existence as she sends out a new call for social responsibility. The Island of Lost Luggage is the poetry winner of the 1999 First Book Awards competition of the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
Janet McAdams's poems have appeared in Poetry, North American Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. A writer of Alabama Creek ancestry, she is a recipient of writer's fellowships from the Alabama and Georgia state arts councils and is currently Assistant Professor of English, Native American Studies, and Women's Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Janet McAdams's poems have appeared in Poetry, North American Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. A writer of Alabama Creek ancestry, she is a recipient of writer's fellowships from the Alabama and Georgia state arts councils and is currently Assistant Professor of English, Native American Studies, and Women's Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
Reviews
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Wonderful stuff!
This Island of Lost Luggage is wonderful. Janet McAdams's poems are lyrical and gritty at the same time, swollen with life, drenched with place, and she never seems to take the easy way in or out. Highly recommended!