The Trailhead - Kerri Webster
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¿I'm learning to allow for visions,¿ the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that history. A ¿conversion narrative¿ of sorts, the book examines the self as a ¿burned-over district,¿ individual and cul ... Full description
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Description
¿I'm learning to allow for visions,¿ the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that history. A ¿conversion narrative¿ of sorts, the book examines the self as a ¿burned-over district,¿ individual and cultural pain as a crucible in which the book¿s sibyls and spinsters are remade, transfigured. Sacralization/is when things become holy, also/when vertebrae fuse," the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered calling¿a firm faith in the power and worth of the female voice¿and a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.
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| Author | Kerri Webster |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
| Release year | 2018 |
| Cover type | Hardcover |
| EAN | 9780819578112 |