P L A C E
自然が破局へ向かう世界のなかで、想像力と経験を頼りに人間の居場所を探る詩集。身体感覚や親子関係の緊張を含みながら、言葉が世界をどう支えうるかを問いかける。
作品情報
壊れかけた世界で、詩はなお居場所をつくれるのかを問い直す。
Jorie Graham の『Place』は、自然環境の危機を背景に、想像力、直感、経験がどのように人間の責任と感受性を支えうるかを探る詩集。海岸、子ども、身体、言語が交差し、存在のかたちを静かに問い直す。
レビュー要約
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自然や政治への鋭い感受性と、意識の流れをたどるような文体が支持されている。いっぽうで、密度の高い思考と断片的な展開は、読者によっては手強く感じられる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- 発売日
- 2012-08-01
- ページ数
- 96ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 17.7 x 1.5 x 22.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781847771933
- ISBN-10
- 1847771939
- 価格
- 506 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
"P L A C E" begins with a poem dated 5 June 2009, located at St Laurent Sur Mer, better known by its code name Omaha Beach, one of the sites of the American landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944. It is the starting point for a book of poems written in the uneasy lull of a world moving towards an unknowable future. Jorie Graham explores the ways in which imagination, intuition and experience help us to navigate a life we will have no choice but to live. How does one think ethically as well as emotionally in such a world? How does one think of one's child - of having brought a child into this world? How does love continue? As we look back, and are compelled to try to see ahead, "P L A C E" calls us, in poems of great force and beauty, to inhabit and rejoice in a more responsive and responsible place in the world.
Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Her poems have been translated into numerous languages, including Albanian, Chinese and Polish. Her most recent collection is P L A C E (Carcanet, 2012). Born in New York in 1951, Graham grew up in France and Italy and was educated at the Sorbonne, New York University and the University of Iowa. A former director of the renowned Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, she now divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches poetry at Harvard University. For more information visit Jorie Graham's website: www.joriegraham.com
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