The Caiplie Caves: Poems - Karen Solie

Descriere The Caiplie Caves: Poems - Karen Solie

\nThe award-winning poet Karen Solie's striking fifth collection of poetry blends the story of a seventh-century monk with contemporary themes of economic class, environmentalism, and solitude in an ever-connected world \n \nif one asks for a sign \nmust one accept what's given? \n \nEthernan, an Irish missionary in the seventh century, retreated to the Caiplie Caves on the eastern coast of Scotland to consider life as a hermit. In The Caiplie Caves, Karen Solie's fifth collection of poems, short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, Solie inhabits a figure inspired by Ethernan, a man torn between the communal and the contemplative. His story is remarkable for the mysticism embedded in the ordinary; as Solie writes in her preface, Ethernan is not known for supernatural feats, but is said to have survived for a very long time on bread and water. \n \nInterwoven with the voice of this figure are poems whose subjects orbit the physical location of the caves and join the sharply contemporary to the mythic past: the fall of a coal-fired power station; a druid shouting astrology outside a liquor store, putting the Ambien in ambience; seabirds frontloaded with military tech; the dichotomous nature of the stinging nettle. \n \nThese are meditations on the crisis of time and change, on class, power, and belief. Above all, these are ambitious and exhilarating poems from one of today's most gifted poetic voices.\n

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Farrar, Straus And Giroux

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ENSTK

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9780374602895

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1

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