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Curator of Silence

Af: Jude Nutter Engelsk Paperback

Curator of Silence

Af: Jude Nutter Engelsk Paperback
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The title poem—about a group of schoolchildren illustrating Shelley''s "Ode to a Skylark"—ends with the following assertion: "these are the only / lessons they will ever need to learn: that life / is not artifact, but aperture—a stepping into / and a falling away; that to sing is to rise / from the grave of the body. And still / say less than nothing."

This idea of the aperture, the gap, the silence that exists between what we want to say and what we actually do say pervades The Curator of Silence. The paradox, of course, is that the creation of art itself makes this gap, as there is always a gulf between the impulse and the gesture, the vision and the poem.

Nutter''s experience of living for two months in the Antarctic, perhaps the greatest silence and solitude possible on earth, is the archetype of silence whose many dimensions she explores in this volume. She considers both literal, obvious silences—death, abandonment, loneliness, the silence into which lost things vanish—and silences of a more mysterious and paradoxical nature: the (mis)perceptions of childhood, the erasures of addiction and brain damage, the isolation of Antarctic explorers, and the seemingly distant, and often fearsome, lives of animals.

In the end, this great silence we batter our hearts against—call it the grave or god or the universe or the intimate silence of the white page—is the silence these poems are singing to and with, not against.

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The title poem—about a group of schoolchildren illustrating Shelley''s "Ode to a Skylark"—ends with the following assertion: "these are the only / lessons they will ever need to learn: that life / is not artifact, but aperture—a stepping into / and a falling away; that to sing is to rise / from the grave of the body. And still / say less than nothing."

This idea of the aperture, the gap, the silence that exists between what we want to say and what we actually do say pervades The Curator of Silence. The paradox, of course, is that the creation of art itself makes this gap, as there is always a gulf between the impulse and the gesture, the vision and the poem.

Nutter''s experience of living for two months in the Antarctic, perhaps the greatest silence and solitude possible on earth, is the archetype of silence whose many dimensions she explores in this volume. She considers both literal, obvious silences—death, abandonment, loneliness, the silence into which lost things vanish—and silences of a more mysterious and paradoxical nature: the (mis)perceptions of childhood, the erasures of addiction and brain damage, the isolation of Antarctic explorers, and the seemingly distant, and often fearsome, lives of animals.

In the end, this great silence we batter our hearts against—call it the grave or god or the universe or the intimate silence of the white page—is the silence these poems are singing to and with, not against.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 80
ISBN-13: 9780268036614
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0268036616
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2006
Længde: 4mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: University of Notre Dame Press
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2006
Forfatter(e): Jude Nutter
Forfatter(e) Jude Nutter

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9780268036614

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 80

Udgave

Længde 4mm

Bredde 140mm

Højde 216mm

Udg. Dato 15 nov 2006

Oplagsdato 15 nov 2006

Forlag University of Notre Dame Press