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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008946903321

Autore

Hoerth Katherine

Titolo

Flare Stacks in Full Bloom : Poems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station : , : Texas Review Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781680032642

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (106 pages)

Collana

The Margaret Lea Houston Series

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Climat - Changements - Effets de l'homme sur - Texas (Est)

Petrole - Dechets - Aspect de l'environnement - Texas (Est)

Petroleum waste - Environmental aspects

Ecology

Climatic changes - Effect of human beings on

Ecology - Texas, East

Climatic changes - Effect of human beings on - Texas, East

Petroleum waste - Environmental aspects - Texas, East

Poesie

poetry

Poetry

Ecopoetry

Electronic books.

Texas Houston

East Texas

Houston (Tex.) Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Loblolly Serenade: Flare Stack Eden -- Hunger -- Katy Prairie, May -- Loblolly Serenade -- Prayer of Prey -- Monologue of the Plastic Grocery Bag -- Urban Jungle -- Ms. Faust -- Hill Country Myrtle -- Lupinus Texensis -- Sisyphus in Southeast Texas -- Crude -- Falfurrias Checkpoint, February -- Something There is That Doesn't Love a Wall -- A January Thursday in El Valle -- Spring in Houston -- The Day



Before Another Apocalypse -- Another Testament of Hurricane Harvey: The Storm's Genesis -- The Body's Apocalypse -- The Wrath of Mother Nature's Child -- Exodus: Evacuee -- Hemiplegic Heirloom -- The Gospel of High Water -- Leviticus, How to be Holy as an Evacuee -- Mother Earth -- At Isla Blanca Park -- Joshua, Returning Home -- Beaumont, After Harvey -- Harvey Refugee -- Job -- Why You Shouldn't Fall in Love with East Texas -- Lamentations, An Abecedarian for Beaumont -- Another Houston Flood, Mother's Day -- Proverbs, How to Prepare for the Next Big Storm -- The Cracked Cheesecake of God -- Zechariah, Our Lady of Refuge Church, Refugio -- Willy Burger. After Harvey -- James, Big Tree -- Revelation

-- Hope Like Wildflowers: Beaumont Bloom -- Poem for Proctor Street, -- The Price of Paradise -- Boom Town -- Elegy for a Pair of Steel-Toed Work Boots -- Morning Light, Beaumont -- Upon Seeing a Produce Stand on Farm Road -- Beauty as an Invasive Species -- Hope like Wildflowers -- The Great Cerulean Recycling Bin -- Texas Flamingo -- Houston Magnolia Sonnet -- Beaumont Smoke -- Hummingbirds in Houston -- Spring in the Borderlands -- Pomegranate Magic -- The Longleaf Pine Tree -- Resurrection, Easter Morning -- First Freeze -- Her Apocalypse -- Couplets for the End of Hurricane Season, -- Nightshift, Baytown.

Sommario/riassunto

"Flare Stacks in Full Bloom is a collection of eco-feminist poetry set in southeast Texas. This region, sometimes called "Cancer Alley," is home to the nation's largest oil refinery. It has also been on the front lines of climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey, the historic flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda, and just last year, Hurricanes Laura and Hurricane Delta. It's a region that feels the tension of climate change: economically, it is dependent on the oil industry, the same industry that poisons its citizens and threatens its lands existence as sea levels rise. Flare Stacks in Full Bloom explores this tension through a chronicle of Hurricane Harvey-before, during, and after the storm, through formal poetry (sonnets, villanelles, and blank verse narratives)"--