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Andrew Collard Sprawl (Paperback) Hollis Summers Poetry Prize (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Sprawl : Poems
- Publication Name
- Sprawl
- Title
- Sprawl
- Subtitle
- Poems
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0821425285
- EAN
- 9780821425282
- ISBN
- 9780821425282
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 28/03/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Series
- Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Places, General, Subjects & Themes / Family
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 94 Pages
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Sprawl is a reconstruction of the constantly shifting landscape of metropolitan Detroit, which extends over six counties and is home to over four million people, from the perspective of a single parent raising a young child amid financial precarity. Part memoir, part invention, the book is Andrew Collard's attempt to reconcile the tenderness and sense of purpose found in the parent-child relationship with ongoing societal crises in the empire of the automobile. Here, a mansion may contrast with a burned-out home just up the street. How does one construct a sense of place in such a landscape, where once-familiar neighborhoods turn to strip malls or empty lots and the relationships that root us dissolve? Sprawl suggests that there is solace in recognizing that when we ask this question, we are never alone in asking. Within the larger geographical space of the metropolis are the in-between places of personal significance: the gas stations, burger joints, malls, and parking lots where many of the defining moments of ordinary lives occur. These poems take deep inspiration from such places, insisting on the value of the people found there, along with their experiences. What might be considered high and low culture are as inextricably linked in the formal cues of the poems as they are in the Michigan landscape, influenced by pop music, midcentury modern aesthetics, comic books, and cars. While the sprawl of the title refers to the seemingly endless succession of businesses and neighborhoods extending north from Detroit ("a sprawl this extensive breeds / empty pockets"), it also invokes the sprawl of history through poems that move between the past and present. One sequence of poems built on old newspaper clippings draws attention to a Chrysler plant that once constructed Redstone missiles. Elsewhere, two poems refer to the Detroit newspaper strike of the 1990s, a local controversy with lasting implications for the community. Sprawl ultimately illuminates the relationship of one place to other places, contextualizing its characters and locales within a wider societal frame.
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Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-10
0821425285
ISBN-13
9780821425282
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21058374740
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sprawl : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Places, General, Subjects & Themes / Family
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
94 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3603.O4387s67 2023
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"Andrew Collard's Sprawl refuses to shy away from the darkness yet is unafraid to acknowledge the strange beauties which whisper from the depths of fissures and the distances beyond peripheries. Collard captures complexities of contemporary life as the verse maintains its dichotomies, does not water down hardships nor loss. We explore a desperate sort of sadness, such as 'what it means that I am from here // but can't afford a home here.' Yet the work rejects didacticism, instead painting palpable landscapes, places in which we can immerse ourselves for contemplation. These poems zoom into and out from intimate moments, showcasing nuances of public and private topographies. This collection is a superb demonstration of the role of the modern writer as witness to their times."--Heather Lang-Cassera, author of Gathering Broken Light, winner of the NYC Big Book Award in Poetry, Social/Political, I admired the poet's deeply felt intelligence alert to "the way the pieces move." The manuscript was an experience that gripped me from the beginning.--Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, final judge, "I admired the poet's deeply felt intelligence alert to 'the way the pieces move.' The manuscript was an experience that gripped me from the beginning."--Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, finals judge, "'Because to name / a thing can be a way to claim it,' Andrew Collard writes in his stunning Sprawl, a poetic geography of the nation's heartland placed in a metropolitan Detroit that the poet presents as Autotopia, in the age of the Anthropocene that Detroit so mightily helped to create. Powerfully and precisely attentive, beautifully crafted to encompass the imaginative breadth of his witness and vision, Collard's poems provide us with indispensable 'field reports from the interior' with deeply articulate, heartfelt fury."--Lawrence Joseph, author of A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems
Table of Content
Diorama 1 Future Ruins Perpetual Motion 5 Quizzo Night at The Red Ox 7 Cicada Song 10 Pax Americana 11 Autotopia 13 Future Ruins 14 Wartime, Rally's Drive-In 17 Carried 19 Clippings: Sterling Assembly Plant 23 Where the Birds Went Crawling Backwards 27 The Nest 28 Unpunctuated Days 29 Elegy for the Dymaxion Car 31 Autotopia 34 They Say King's Forest Boulevard Is Healing 35 Sub-pastoral 37 After News of a Border Shutdown, I Venture Out for Fries 39 Clippings: Sterling Assembly Plant 43 Sprawl Gas & Food 47 Key Motor Mall 49 On the Demolition of Produce Kingdom 51 Telway Lament 53 Autotopia 56 Badlands Flashback 57 Night Music 59 Commute 61 Clippings: Sterling Assembly Plant 65 How to Be Held Church can be a word for anywhere 69 Landscape with Ryegrass and Hunger 71 Idyll 73 City of Windows 74 Night Cycle 77 Autotopia 78 To My Son Henry, Asleep in the Next Room 80 Dear leasing office, dear oil slick 82 Acknowledgments 85 Notes and Dedications 87
Copyright Date
2023
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-051168
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Series
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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