Scorpyn Odes: Poetry - Softcover

Browne, Laynie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888553707 ISBN 13: 9781888553703

Publisher: Independent Publishers Group, 2015

Synopsis

This collection explores the iconic history of the scorpion in literature and mythology, as demon, poison, and guardian. What may be learned from a species with a 400 million-year history? How might evolutionary intelligence be a lens through which to consider various cultural maladies? Verse odes are interspersed with prose departures and muse upon the many literal and metaphorical connotations of leaving in these poems. What must we celebrate, and from what must we depart in order to reaffirm a more sustainable humanity? What is the human equivalent to molting? What happens when disintegration of landscape becomes internalized? What depths of loss do we traverse in a time when toxicity challenges our ability to see our surroundings? How do you build a house of hope with the potency to counter symptomatic forgetfulness? This work explores the possibility of "departure" as locomotion or energy source, travel and incantatory momentum.

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About the Author

Laynie Browne is an award-winning poet and novelist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College, USA. Her work has been published in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry and Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology. She is the recipient of a Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a National Poetry Series Award, and two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Poetry. She is the author of Lost Parkour Ps(alms); Roseate, Points of Gold; and The Scented Fox and a coeditor of I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888553707
• ISBN 13: 9781888553703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56