Ay
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.23 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936797410 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 74 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Ay, she revisits these inventions and pushes them even further, refreshing the possibilities of our present by drawing deeply on the ruddier vitality of an imagined ancient past.". While Ay recovers, in a series of lyrical monologues he discovers an individual self-awareness, separate from family and tribe. A powerful sequel to The Us, which ended with the son Ay wounded, rendered silent and immobile by a head injury. In Ay, the boy is propped up and worshiped, as others project a kind of divinity onto his stillness. Timothy Donnelly writes: "In The Us, Houlihan introduced her readers not only to an invented pre-historic culture, its collective struggles, and a handful of its most illustrious members, but also to an artfully primitive idiom unlike any other in use in poetry today
Ay is a narrative and song at once: it is talismanic." -- Ilya Kaminsky --Advance Praise . "Musically rugged, riddled with insight, resonant, gripping, and chock-full of moments that startle with their vividness ("What eats grass slow and bent- / necked, eyed from the side, is deer"), Ay deploys its fertile idiom not only for the pleasure of it, which is immeasurable, but as a medium through which to investigate, among other things, the mechanics of subjectivity, grief, empathy, and forgiveness. The result is one of the most radically inventive and in
The Song of Ay Jimmie Cumbie "Ay" is the absorbing, fire lit, and inward looking sequel to Joan Houlihan's, "The Us," and in it she picks up where "The Us" left off -- with a wounded and mute Ay, and his small, ragtag tribe, incessantly wandering for sustenance upon rawest earth. Like any great and sprawling ta
Joan Houlihan's previous books are The Us, named a must-read of 2009 by Massachusetts Center for the Book, The Mending Worm, winner of the Green Rose Award from New Issues Press, and Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays. Currently on the faculty of Lesley University's Low-Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she also teaches part-time at Clar