The Black Bear Inside Me / / Robin Becker

• Autore: Becker Robin <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Pittsburgh, Pa., : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 61 pages).)
• Disciplina: 811
• Soggetto topico: American poetry
• Soggetto genere / forma: Poetry; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Poems.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Part I -- Clearing -- Moment of Amazement -- Two Dogs, One Wise -- Elegy for the Science Teacher -- Bluefish, 1970 -- Coppice and Pollard -- Yankee Barn Sale -- Reading Music -- Scottish Melodies -- Hearing the News -- Whitetail Spring -- The Black Bear Inside Me -- Part II -- Theory -- Alex, an Obituary -- Hummingbird -- The Collection of the Canter -- True Blue Communications Man -- Missing -- Security Clearance -- The Wages of Sin -- Ballroom -- At the Memorial -- On the Grand Canal -- Provisional Ode -- Part III -- Men as Friends -- Semblance -- The Broker -- The Annual Performance Review -- Taken into Account -- The Barcelona Inside Me -- Rodeo Ben -- Make It Plain -- Where the Unfairness of the World Resides -- Blast Off -- Words with Friends -- The Fix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
• Sommario/riassunto: Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family "sacrifices one member,/ as plants surrender leaves in times of drought." Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Black Bear Inside Me
• ISBN: 0-8229-8327-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828035203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pitt poetry series.