Ice Hours

• Autore: Boyer Marion Starling
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (121 pages)
• Disciplina: 919.8904092
• Soggetto genere / forma: Poetry
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- [Map] -- Perhaps I Was Eden -- One Audacious Idea -- Dear Father -- Southing -- Penguins and Whales -- Iceberg, Departing -- The Sledging Commences -- Relaying the Load -- The Race to Minna Bluff -- Last Night I Slept Like a Top -- 79° South, Minna Bluff Depot -- A Glimpse of Hell -- Dead Dog Trail -- Waiting for Deliverance -- Iced In -- Spencer-Smith's Woodbines -- Frostbite, Last Team on the Barrier -- Learning Detachment -- Sea Wolves -- The Lay of the Land -- Gladys Mackintosh -- Wild's Hut Point Mixture -- Butchering Seals in the Dark -- Fell in the Pond -- The Red Comet -- Cape Evans Hut -- Midwinter's Day, Cape Evans -- We'll Do Our Damnedest -- Beyond the Narwhal Gate -- Two Hundred Fifty Miles Out, Nine Day Coal Supply -- All My Flowers -- After Four Months, Dawn -- Parting Company on the Barrier -- Rudderless -- Snow-Blind, 79° S, Replenishing Supply Depots -- Summer Begins, on the Aurora -- Gladys Mackintosh, Advent -- Hogmanay, on the Aurora -- Black Flags to the Beardmore Glacier -- The Golden Gateway, Final Depot 83° 31' S -- Trapped Returning, the Twelve Day Blizzard -- The Cold, Quiescent Eye -- White Earth and Ruins -- Richards -- The Breath of Night -- Five Men in a Three-Man Tent, Twenty-Eight Below Zero -- Gladys Mackintosh, the Second Spring -- Left Behind, Mack's Sixth Day on the Ice -- Splice the Mainbrace -- In the Dark Time -- Seal Meat, Morning, Noon & Night -- The Men Asleep at the Bottom of the World -- Waste -- Leaving Discovery Hut for Cape Evans -- Gladys Mackintosh in the Garden -- Marking Time -- Ship Ho! -- To Ice -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Series acknowledgments -- Back Matter.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ice Hours is a suite of poems set in majestic and severe Antarctica, chronicling the nearly forgotten story of the Ross Sea party. Weaving historical and scientific research into lilting verse, Marion Starling Boyer follows the adventurers who sailed on the Aurora at the beginning of World War I to support Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. These poems reveal the characters of the explorers and the conflicts they faced during the two years they labored to lay a chain of supply depots across the ice, unaware that Shackleton would never come because his ship, the Endurance, sank on the opposite side of the continent. The Ross Sea men battled frozen wastelands, scurvy, snow-blindness, starvation, hypothermia, and frostbite while their ship, the Aurora, was ice-trapped, marooning them without vital equipment, clothing, fuel, and food. Through lyric and formal poetic forms, Ice Hours brings to life the close of a heroic period interwoven with the brooding voice of the Antarctic continent, evoking themes of what occurs when humanity engages with the sublime.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ice Hours
• ISBN: 9781628954937; 1628954930; 9781609177256; 1609177258
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008451003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wheelbarrow Bks.