Author

Publication

2010 - Ahsahta Press, Boise, Idaho, Idaho

Language

English

Word Count

18,250 words, Guess

Page Count

73 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC811/.6
  • LCCPS3620.E427 P54 2010

Description

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Like Tennyson's In Memoriam, Teare's book sees within a personal loss evidence of an epochal shift at work, a shift at once historical, political, and cosmological. Asserting the lover's body as a lost Eden, revisiting again and again the narrative of "the fall"—its iconic imagery as well as Gnostic reinterpretations—the book also records the eventual end of mourning and a return to the ecology not of myth but of the literal weather and landscape of California. The book is haunted throughout by the task of "writing the disaster" of AIDS; its lyrics link emergency to inquiry in an attempt to make a memorial "in language sufficient/to pain : not in itself the world : the thought of it."

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The new series -- no. 37

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