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Mclatchey, M. B.

 
9780874219081: The Lame God (May Swenson Poetry Award, 16, Band 16)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0874219086 ISBN 13: 9780874219081
Verlag: Utah State University Press, 2013

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Winner of 2013 May Swenson Poetry Award
In The Lame God, author M. B. McLatchey reminds us of the inevitable bond between art and empathy. With a controlled language that finds its echo chamber in the immortal themes and characters of classical literature, this courageous work accompanies the author on her journey through a parent’s anguish in the face of a horrific crime. Using the art of poetry she gives voice to a suffering—and a love—that might otherwise go unheard.
 
The May Swenson Poetry Award, an annual competition named for May Swenson, honors her as one of America's most provocative and vital writers. During her long career, Swenson was loved and praised by writers from virtually every school of American poetry. She left a legacy of fifty years of writing when she died in 1989. She is buried in Logan, Utah, her hometown.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

M. B. McLatchey holds degrees in comparative literature and languages, in teaching, and in English literature from Harvard University, Brown University, and Williams College, as well as the MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. A widely published poet and scholar with an extensive background in literature, philosophy, and ancient and modern languages. She has received numerous awards including the Harvard University Danforth Prize, the Harvard/Radcliffe Prize for Literary Scholarship, and the Brown University Elmer Smith Award for Teaching. Her most recent poetry awards include the American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal, the Annie Finch Prize for Poetry, the Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editors’ Prize, the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and the Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award. She has also authored and edited a compilation of Greek and Roman readings titled Primary Sources. With over twenty years of experience teaching humanities and literature to college students, she is currently a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Visit her at www.corvidwriters.org/mbm.

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THE LAME GOD

poems

By M. B. McLatchey

University Press of Colorado

Copyright © 2013 M. B. McLatchey
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-87421-908-1

Contents

Foreword by Edward Field...................................................ix
Preface....................................................................xi
1-800-THE-LOST.............................................................3
The Rescue.................................................................4
What the Neighbors Heard...................................................5
Amber Alert................................................................7
Mandatum...................................................................9
Apology....................................................................10
On the Proper Care of Orchids..............................................11
The Retrieval..............................................................12
Museum.....................................................................13
Lullaby for Her Brother....................................................14
Kaleidoscope...............................................................16
On Recognizing Saints......................................................17
Morning Offering...........................................................19
The Golden Bough...........................................................20
At the Grieving Parents Meeting............................................22
Demeter's Side.............................................................24
Snow Globe.................................................................25
The Rape of Chryssipus.....................................................27
I See You..................................................................28
River of Forgetfulness.....................................................29
Bingo Night for Missing and Exploited Children.............................31
A Glass of Absinthe........................................................32
Catharsis..................................................................33
The Boy's Lament...........................................................35
Little Fits................................................................36
Mythology..................................................................39
Mother's Day...............................................................40
Requiem....................................................................42
Song of Daphnis............................................................43
Loose Ends.................................................................44
Sanriku....................................................................46
Teaching the Tragedies.....................................................47
Girl at Piano..............................................................48
Oaths, Curses, Blessings...................................................50
Melville's Reader..........................................................51
Joseph Dreams Two Dreams...................................................52
Leaving the Mainland.......................................................55
The Ventriloquist..........................................................56
Songs of the Immortals.....................................................57
The Eviction...............................................................58
The Arrangement............................................................59
Aubade.....................................................................61
The Lame God...............................................................62
Against Elegies............................................................64
Acknowledgments............................................................66
About the Author...........................................................67
The May Swenson Poetry Award...............................................68


CHAPTER 1

    1-800-THE-LOST

    The weight of the receiver in my hand:
    the down bird in my palm first lifting you.
    The counselor's words: rehearsed, a burlesque bland.

    The shift in time, the shift to looking through
    her lens: today you are just one of two
    hundred lost. My eyes fix on our bright fence.

    I say your name, but you are no one new —
    caught in an ancient book that she'll condense.
    I want her to discuss you in the present tense.

    I want the gods to stop pretending love
    calls the departed home. We called you
    with our various loves, had hope, hovered

    over still fields; made wind like the gods do
    before they come unhinged, let their rage loose
    on an unresponsive yield. Fields gone deaf

    and dumb; unshaken, fruitless ground, unmoved
    by a neighborhood of mothers who left
    their own to find you — tables, like mine, set.

    I want the gods to swallow their prayers
    whole. Choke up my child like the Olympians —
    a girl, unbruised by her journey down their

    throats. I want her at my table: fruit, alms
    that the gods, I see, can give or take — balm
    for the irritations I caused, or they

    caused; gifts between us or perhaps among
    themselves — a girl that they'll barter away.
    I'm here. And I'm willing to talk, or trade.


    THE RESCUE

    It's not about closure. It's about justice.
    —John Walsh, father to Adam Walsh


    Today in the news: Miraculous Rescue.
     An uncle drags a shark to shore

    to save his near-dead...

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Verlag
Utah State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0874219086
ISBN 13 
9780874219081
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
64
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