Título: Nelson & the Huruburu Bird
Autor: Mairead Byrne
Sinopse: Product Description This long-awaited first collection from Mairéad Byrne functions as a selected poems and includes poems written in the years before and after her immigration from Ireland to the United States. The poems in this collection are taken from three unpublished books, An Interview With Romulus and Remus, Cycling to Marino, and The Pillar. Poems from An Interview With Romulus and Remus, the earliest book, launch the collection. These poems are high-energy: raw, charged with gusto, delving into the city of Dublin and the small towns of Ireland, often from the strangely exultant standpoint of the marginalized. Core poems here celebrate the euphoria of childbirth—and the energy thus generated propels the book in headlong flight towards America, where the last seven or eight poems in the section are set. The high lyricism of the free verse, colloquial, driven poems about Ireland give way to bare bones, stark list poems about America, e.g., the four alphabet poems "My American Dream," "My Japanese Nightmare," "The Native American," and "The Sky Is The Limit," which, although comprised solely of automobile make and models, manage to sketch out a brief history of ruptured American frontiers. The second section of the book, poems from Cycling to Marino, is lusher and more meditative. It moves from intensely lyric poems addressing childhood and youth in Dublin through a group of formally stark and fragmented poems relating to Irish history—particularly history of emigration—to a finale of love poems. This section also includes four found poems, one of which, "A Salute to the Cape Verdean Community in Boston," marks another immigrant community, as voiced in comments found in a visitors’ book accompanying an exhibition of photographs at Boston Public Library. Other found poems in this section include an incomplete alphabetical list of common verbs in the Irish language—verbs which are very far from common in English—and which again, in the most restrained way possible, sketch out a violent and ruptured history; and the ironic "Love Poem," which is simply a bald, unsatisfactory, and somewhat hopeless series of cues for a course evaluation form. Nevertheless, this section moves surprisingly towards love, buoyed by the long poem "Grooming," a rumination on the glory and bind of motherhood, celebrates the luxuriance of a daughter’s hair as ransacked in the act of nit-picking. The section concludes with a bouquet of short love poems, ending with the acerbic "Truce," which parleys the tensions of domesticated heterosexuality in terms of vegetables and body parts. The third and final section of the book, poems from The Pillar, is dominated by the long poem "The Pillar," which uses the memory of Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin—built to honor Admiral Horatio Nelson’s victory (and death) at Trafalgar in 1805 and blown up by the Irish Republican Army in 1966—to come to terms with the weird unsatisfactory legacy of colonialism in Ireland: a broken language, a broken culture, but life goes on, generally at full throttle. Just as the memory of Nelson’s Pillar is shored up and surrounded by the shards and scraps of the blown-up monument, and city streets, the poem "The Pillar" is surrounded by shorter found and prose poems, and wound around with a series of longer perambulatory poems set in Dublin and Ithaca, New York. The same trajectory from Ireland to America which is seen in the other two sections also appears here, as does the formal tension between lush lyricism and tightly-modeled found poems. Though gusto and humor remain constant, the raw energy with which the book started out is disciplined into horrified nostalgia and light-headed pilgrimage by book’s end. The journey towards home replaces the notion of home itself: "I think I must know as much about sidewalks / as anyone in this world—/ I don’t know that I love them" and "A cracked American sidewalk / is not so different to anywhere else / Everything about the sidewalk is minor / No n
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Nelson & the Huruburu Bird”, de Mairead Byrne, publicado pela editora Wild Honey Press, em 2002 e com 128 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Wild Honey Press
Páginas: 128
Ano: 2002
Edição: 1
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781903090381
ISBN13: 9781903090381
