A Different Distance: A Renga
Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Nair
Language: English
Published by Milkweed Editions, 2021
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- Title
- A Different Distance: A Renga
- Author
- Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Nair
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1571315519
- ISBN 13
- 9781571315519
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1 pound
An Indie Next Selection for December 2021
A Ms. Magazine Recommended Read for Fall 2021
Renga, an ancient Japanese form of collaborative poetry, is comprised of alternating tanka beginning with the themes of tōki and tōza: this season, this session. Here, from the "plague spring," through a year in which seasons are marked by the waxing and waning of the virus, Hacker and Naïr's renga charts the "differents and sames" of a now-shared experience. Their poems witness a time of suspension in which some things, somehow, press on relentlessly, in which solidarity persists--even thrives--in the face of a strange new kind of isolation. Between "ten thousand, yes, minutes of Bones," there's cancer and chemotherapy and the aches of an aging body. There is grief for the loss of friends nearby and concern for loved ones in the United States, Lebanon, and India. And there is a deep sense of shared humanity, where we all are "mere atoms of water, / each captained by protons of hydrogen, hurtling earthward."
At turns poignant and playful, the seasons and sessions of A Different Distance display the compassionate, collective wisdom of two women witnessing a singular moment in history.
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About the Author
2010 PEN Voelcker Award for her own work, and the international Argana
Prize for Poetry from the Beit as-Sh'ir/ House of Poetry in Morocco in
2011. She lives in Paris.
Karthika Naïr is the coauthor of A Different Distance. She is a poet, fabulist and librettist whose books include The Honey Hunter, illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, her
reimagining of the foundational South Asian epic in multiple voices,
won the 2015 Tate Literature Live Award for Book of the Year (Fiction),
was shortlisted for the Atta Galatta Prize and highly commended in the
2016 Forward Prizes. Naïr has scripted and coscripted performances for
choreographers Akram Khan (DESH, Chotto Desh, and Until the Lions, adapted from her own book), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Damien Jalet (Babel 7.16), and Carlos Pons Guerra (Mariposa).
She is the co-founder of Cherkaoui's Antwerp-based dance company,
Eastman, and executive producer of several of his and Damien Jalet's
works.
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