Nerve Squall
Layering images of weather and the nervous system, the poetry collection sharply captures storms, sensory overload, and the vibration of language. Its dense verbal texture gives form to the sense that nature and the body continually invade one another.
Work Information
When storm and nerve meet, language moves like an uneasy current.
A representative early collection by Sylvia Legris. Published by Coach House Books, it moves through birds, snow, lightning, and hallucinatory bodily sensation to disturb the boundary between natural phenomena and inner life. It is also known as a Griffin Poetry Prize-winning book.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Published
- 2001-10-19
- Pages
- 128 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.99 x 1.02 x 21.34 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781552451601
- ISBN-10
- 1552451607
- Price
- 11956 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge. Legris’s fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for a collection of poetry that ensures you’ll never look at nature the same way again. You’ll find snow golems and ghost cats, and a sky filled with fish swimming the winds of a storm. And you’ll find a haunted terrain where the natural world becomes an allegory for our most intimate fears. Despite their dark and often cinematic approach, these poems are also tinged with a sly, apocalyptic wit that can’t help but laugh as the sky falls. Nerve Squall is a vital exploration of the symbiosis of storm, nerve and language, a sure-handed guide to the end of the world.
Nerve Squall is Sylvia Legris's third book-length poetry collection; her previous books are iridium seeds and circuitry of veins. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in 2001 she won the Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize for 'Fishblood Sky'; and she received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of the 2004 National Magazine Awards. She is currently a resident in the state of fidgety fretfulness.
Related Literary Awards
- Griffin Poetry Prize Edition 6 (2006) ・Winner