Render (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781551528274)

Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in another language or form; to translate. To deliver or pronounce formally; to cause to become; to reduce, convert, or melt down, by heating.
br> A recovery narrative has a known form: what it was like, what happened, and what it's like today. In a poem, what can be arranged or interpreted with such certainty, by whom, and to what end? What is the relationship of the performance of recovery via a poem to the truth of the experience? Does one deliver the other? Insert into these considerations the experience of traumas. How is trauma converted by post-trauma experiences? What is the retribution of that experience when articulated as poetry? Enter these questions through the dream, with its unrenderable subjects, landscapes, and plots. Where do dreams meet poetry in their spontaneous, opaque, necessary structures? What do such comparisons yield to the waking reader? What can be rendered intelligible in the soup of long-term recovery?br> br> With great ferocity and tenderness, Sachiko Murakami's poems encounter such questions, and then melt them down, by heating.

Author: Sachiko Murakami
ISBN-10: 1551528274
ISBN-13: 9781551528274
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d