Empire

Tracy Zeman

Description

Tracy Zeman’s first full-length collection of poems, Empire, examines the European settlement and ecological devastation of the North American prairie. Her ecology-based serial poems employ collage, borrowed text and fractured narrative to probe the connections of humans to the natural world through the lens of culture, history and personal experience. Zeman uses image, juxtapositio,n and fragment to tell the story of a savage and intricate landscape, once conquered and now imperiled by forces such as climate change, invasive species and contemporary agricultural and land practices. Empire is a journey through an endangered world where beauty is enshrined and the lost, human and animal, is elegized.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643171197
• Langue: English

Extrait

EMPIRE

TRACY ZEMAN

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize

Free Verse Editions Edîted by Jon Tompson

EMPIRE

Tracy Zeman

Winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize

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Contents

Grass for Bone 5

Grass or Bone 7 he Edge Efect 21 Soîtary Brances & Sma eaves 22

Star or Plow 27

Star or Pow 29 Outîers & Bueprînts 34 Broad Wîngs above Ta Grass 35 Sîmuacra 36 arge Stone on Body, Bîrc Brances Above 41 Pope County, ïînoîs 42 Pum Bossoms at Yeow Dusk 45

Empire of Grass 51

Grîst 53 Taxonomîc 54 Mîdewîn 64 Empîre o Grass 65

Notes 69 Acknowedgments 71 About te Autor 73 Free Verse Edîtîons 75

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For Edward Zeman, 1951-2004

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