LEADER 03297nam 2200457 450 001 9910816637203321 005 20230420154429.0 010 $a9781647690410$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9781647690403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29132767 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29132767 035 $a(CKB)21393299400041 035 $a(OCoLC)1232014592 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100088 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921393299400041 100 $a20230420d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWest portal /$fBenjamin Gucciardi 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSalt Lake City, Utah :$cThe University of Utah Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (85 pages) 225 1 $aAgha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry 311 08$aPrint version: Gucciardi, Benjamin West Portal : University of Utah Press,c2021 9781647690403 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Foreword by Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- 1. -- Type Two -- Advice for Pallbearers -- King Tide -- Prayer for the Instant City -- I Ask My Sister's Ghost How Dying Is -- Spill -- The Hermitage at Laurel Dell -- Halo for the Scorched Orchard -- I Ask My Sister's Ghost How Her Days Are Now -- Masa -- 2. -- Rendering the Pose -- 3. -- Hunting Chanterelles in the Oakland Hills -- The Rungs -- Futile, - the winds - -- The Invisible Hand Knocks Twice -- Lines for John Berryman on the Bus from Little Mogadishu -- Salve Regina -- The Arachnologist -- The Last Bear in the Headlands -- Sonora Desert Halo -- I Ask My Sister's Ghost to Take Me with Her -- 4. -- I Ask My Sister's Ghost to Play a Game of Cribbage -- Little Accents -- The Kaleidoscope -- Braille in Sicily -- Outside Tallahassee -- Halo for Evacuees -- Self-Portrait with Daughter -- Chosen Landscape -- The Nest -- I Ask My Sister's Ghost to Write Her Own Elegy -- Acknowledgments. 330 $a"West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles-the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that "the local is the only thing that is universal," West Portal investigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet's sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment, the poems in West Portal illuminate the experience of loss, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful, observant, elegiac, pained, dreamlike, philosophical, and compassionate, the book asks: What do we consider holy? What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other?"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aAgha Shahid Ali prize in poetry. 607 $aWest Portal (San Francisco, Calif.)$vPoetry 608 $aPoetry.$2lcgft 676 $a811/.6 700 $aGucciardi$b Benjamin$f1984-$01690161 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910816637203321 996 $aWest portal$94065713 997 $aUNINA