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Wyrd] Bird

by Claire Marie Stancek

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Omnidawn
  • 15.4 x 22.8 x 0.8 cm

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In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen, a dream journal, a fragmentary notebook, a collection of poems, and a scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as she guides the poet through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by literary, mythical, and historical figures from Milton's Eve to the biblical Satan to Keats's hand. The book deconstructs a Western tradition of good and evil by rereading, cross-questioning, and upsetting some of that tradition's central poetic texts. By refusing and confusing dualistic logic, wyrd] bird searches for an expression of visionary experience that remains rooted in the body, a mode of questioning that echoes out into further questioning, and a cry of elegiac loss that grips, stubbornly, onto love.
Wyrd] Bird and A Century of Poetry
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  • Author

    Claire Marie Stancek

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Omnidawn

  • Published

    November 2020

  • Weight

    176g

  • Dimensions

    15.4 x 22.8 x 0.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781632430847

  • ISBN-10

    1632430843

  • Eden Code

    5226129

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