Winter: Effulgences and Devotions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781934819838)

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In WINTER: EFFULGENCES AND DEVOTIONS, Sarah Vap documents the obstacles to writing a single poem over a twelve-year period. Her account becomes a confrontation with the insidious, radiating, pliant character of late capitalism. She encounters it as a rootless system, an airborne contagion, a toxin in the walls of our homes. Pursuing her distractions across the years, Vap makes certain commitments: to remember the wars that her country is waging, which are meant to be invisible to her; to mourn the deaths of whales by sonar; to hear though she is deaf; to be present for the loss of winter, as she knows it, from earth; and to herself, a profane and multifarious creature who possibly has a soul. Reeling from the nonstop competition that sustains the anthropocene's profiteers, Vap offers an unapologetic case study of encroachment, susceptibility, tenderness, porousness and endurance.

Author: Sarah Vap
ISBN-10: 1934819832
ISBN-13: 9781934819838
Publisher: Noemi Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d