An Ordinary Life
- Indbinding:
- Paperback
- Sideantal:
- 72
- Udgivet:
- 24. September 2024
- 2-3 uger.
- 23. Oktober 2024
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- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
- Ingen binding
Abonnementet koster 75 kr./md.
Ingen binding og kan opsiges når som helst.
Beskrivelse af An Ordinary Life
In this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, these poems range from Kansas highways and sunbaked baseball fields to secondhand memories of a Second World War foxhole. They zoom in on a welder's truck, a superstore on Black Friday and a record store, where a chance encounter offers radiant kindness in the face of grief. In a suite of prose poems written in the returning persona of the machinist and philosopher Roy Eldridge Garcia, "a watcher of things", Fairchild finds sacred meaning in domestic scenes and expansive imagined narratives. Throughout, the poet evokes the brutal beauty of the American heartland, a morning's "sheet-metal sky" and a grandfather's farm, with its "dusty creek, damp / only when the winter wheat was bogged / in snow."
Elevating blue-collar work and scenes from small towns in clear-eyed, reverent poetry, Fairchild proves himself once again "the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic" (The New York Times).
Elevating blue-collar work and scenes from small towns in clear-eyed, reverent poetry, Fairchild proves himself once again "the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic" (The New York Times).
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