Wyrd] Bird

"wyrd] bird grapples with the impossibility and necessity of affirming mystical experience in a world fraught with ecological and individual loss. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, a dream journal, fragmentary notebook, collection of poems, and scrapbook of photographic ephemera. Stancek follows Hildegard as a guide through an underworld of climate catastrophe and political violence populated by 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. Refusing and confusing dualistic logic, wyrd] bird searches out 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"--

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Marie Stancek
• Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781632430847
• ISBN: 978-1-63243-084-7
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 224 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies