Hithe - Softcover

Spector, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916393543 ISBN 13: 9781916393547

Publisher: Xylem Books, 2021

Synopsis

Hithe is the debut poetry collection of Jennifer Spector. An expatriate in Panama, her writing is the distillation of decades spent intimately attentive to her environment, to the lush verdancy of that narrow isthmus between the Atlantic and Pacific. These are poems that enfold narratives of passage, guided by unusual waymarks - from half-timbered, banked canoes to the freight of the hollows, and what carries across shifting languages and bodies untethered from ground.

Hithe presents dioramas of the traversed natural and imagined worlds, where locality is rerouted, moving inwardly over a sketch of elusive lines - a lean-to by a river, a thatched roundhouse, a coracle willowed in the interval, a body losing hem as it becomes the boat. Poised at this place of edges, Spector's writing treads the line between motion and fixity, ever circling the question of what it means to be a long time away from 'home'.

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About the Author

Jennifer Spector is a poet and writer from New York City, based in Panama. Engagement with the natural world and projects in Central and South America have energised work that explores lines of passage through landscape, text, material and plaited artistic processes to build and disassemble narratives. Her poetry and essays have appeared in journals and chapbooks including Shearsman, Reliquiae, Alterity, La Vague, Molly Bloom, Litmus, Nature & Sentience - Contemporary Poetry Series, Book of Hours: An Artist's Book for the Anthropocene by Rebecca Clark, Suelo from Estudio Nuboso, and Performance Studies International's Fluid States conference 'Ship's Log', for which she was a Panama correspondent. 'Hithe', her debut collection of poetry, is published by Xylem Books, an imprint of Corbel Stone Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xylem Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916393543
• ISBN 13: 9781916393547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90