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Blanche Brown Consider the Oyster (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Consider the Oyster
- Publication Name
- Consider the Oyster
- Title
- Consider the Oyster
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1934832766
- EAN
- 9781934832769
- ISBN
- 9781934832769
- Publisher
- New Michigan Press
- Genre
- Poetry, Literary Collections
- Topic
- American / General, Essays
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 03/02/2020
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 64 Pages
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In 1941, MFK Fisher published Consider the Oyster; O, how the world and its ecology have changed since then! Blanche Brown continues the celebration of the tasty bivalve within the context of a bulldozing, dam-building, oil-spilling world. The poem researches the animal through etymology, history, the news, and personal anecdote. But best of all we come to know it by feeling it thick on our tongue. Consider the Oyster is a delectable linguistic feast. --Jena Osman In Blanche Brown's Consider the Oyster, a slimy mollusk becomes the occasion for a rigorous and sensual meditation on humans' toxic enmeshment with the earth's waters. The oyster is a departure point for thinking the natural world, which thinks in ways we cannot know, "consider the oyster / does not consider you." Brown luxuriates in delicious abstract linguistic play, "whose final shape is so mutant, geometry's language misplaces" and collects materials for her documentary poem with the eye of an archivist, describing paintings with care, narrating memories with delicacy, matter-of-factly analyzing environmental reports. These disparate materials are all netted in Brown's luminous mournful swamp-faring ode. --Laura Jaramillo The way Hermes turned a turtle's shell into a lyre, Blanche Brown plies the oyster's "home bone" with strings and makes music out of our paradoxical capacity to love and respect creatures we eat. Equal parts ode, natural history, documentary, cultural history, autobiography, love song to the Apalachicola Bay watershed, and ALL poetry, Consider the Oyster honors most of all the bivalve's literal embeddedness in its habitat. With formal virtuosity, sensual attention, and considerable wit, Brown writes of the anthropogenic challenges all species face--pollution, habitat loss, climate change--and also of those specific to Apalach oysters--Corexit dispersant, the Tri-State Water Wars, ocean acidification. Ultimately, this poem is a plea for us to "consider the flexible / inflexible body of the oyster," helplessly open to the world it feeds upon and that, in turn, feeds upon it. --Brian Teare
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New Michigan Press
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1934832766
ISBN-13
9781934832769
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Book Title
Consider the Oyster
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / General, Essays
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Poetry, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
64 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
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