wyrd] bird

wyrd] bird
Claire Marie Stancek
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7 Nov 2020 US
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9781632430847
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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 immerses us in a world of disproportionate amounts of pain and beauty. This book wants equity but won' t settle for a pat response. Through intermittent states of dream, wake, and the in-between, along with a channeling of the medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen, and a panoply of other writers (Marvell, Donne, Milton, Keats), wyrd] bird is dream journaling, resistance writing, chant and meditation; the work goes deep. Stancek has a careful, gorgeous eye and ear, and her lines will make you stop in your tracks. Words here are frenetic, alive and ' honey red-burning. ' Stancek asks, ' What would it mean to write an utterly embodied book? ' To read this is to know. "--Jennifer Firestone, author of Story "Destiny enters our lives--we do not like to say so--and wyrds them--. That is, the destination that is a life grows strange when, as if fated, we wake up into this life that is, I' m told, my own. But life isn' t only a daylit realm--it' s dusk, it' s dawn, the half-lit all. The tight weave of the will unwinds, the self is a selvage fraying at its edge apart, and the mind learns again it is a thinking dream, learns to ask, as Claire Marie Stancek knows it must, ' what / is a green thought? ' To read wyrd] bird is to become its student. And so I' ve learned, in part, that the ' green thought' is the vital, mystic tendril that threads together opposites into union more profound: God and Satan, sun and moon, night and day, dream and waking. The mystic knows paradise is not conclusion, but is found only in the ' vigor of the unfinished thought, ' where song undoes mere fact, and the world becomes again the poem of love. It is not an easy poem. Love here is difficult because it is so true. Includes the riots. Includes the police. Includes guns. But also includes the wish that ' the song could take some pain away, ' and indeed the song does. When the intimate inverts into the infinite we have the mystic' s book and balm--which is this very book' s deepest nature. Not that it heals all our harms; it doesn' t, and shouldn' t. This book serves a deeper need: to let us behold the wound, our helpless openness, that lets us love the world that wounds us all the more dearly for bearing its mark. "--Dan Beachy-Quick, author of Variations on Dawn and Dusk "Don' t miss outrageously word-hungry Claire Marie Stancek' s wyrd] bird. "-- "Library Journal"
Claire Marie Stancek is the author of two books of poetry, Oil Spell and MOUTHS. With Jane Gregory and Lyn Hejinian, she co-edits Nion Editions, a chapbook press. She lives in Oakland, California.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781632430847
Published: 7 Nov 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Omnidawn Publishing
Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88

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