Overlord : poems
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Overlord : poems
Carcanet, 2005
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What does it mean to be fully present in a human life? How - in the face of the carnage of war, the destruction of the natural world, spiritual oversimplification and reactive fear - does one retain a capacity to be present and responsive? How far does our capacity to be present, to be fully ourselves, depend on our relationship to an 'other' and our understanding of and engagement with otherness itself? What powers lord over us and what do we, as a species, and as souls, lord over? Jorie Graham, in this her most personal and urgent collection to date, undertakes to explore these questions, often from vantage points geographically and historically 'other'. Many of the poems occur along the coastline known as Omaha Beach in Normandy, and move between visions of that beach during the Allied invasion of Europe (whose code name was Operation Overlord) and the Normandy landscape of beaches, fields, and hedgerows as it is known to the speaker today. This work meditates on our new world, ghosted and threatened by competing descriptions of the past, the future, and what it means to be, as individuals, and as a people, 'free'.
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OTHER DAWN DAY ONE PRAYING (Attempt of June 8 '03) SOLDATENFRIEDHOF PRAYING (Attempt of June 6 '03) UPON EMERGENCE LITTLE EXERCISE PRAYING (Attempt of May 9 '03) OMAHA PRAYING (Attempt of June 14 '03) SPOKEN FROM THE HEDGEROWS SPOKEN FROM THE HEDGEROWS SPOKEN FROM THE HEDGEROWS DISENCHANTMENT EUROPE (Omaha Beach 2003) IMPRESSIONISM PHYSICIAN DISENCHANTMENT PRAYING (Attempt of Feb 6 '04) PASSENGER COMMUTE SENTENCE COPY PRAYING (Attempt of April 19 '04) COMMUNION POSTERITY NOTES
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