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The Trailhead Kerri Webster

The Trailhead By Kerri Webster

The Trailhead by Kerri Webster


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Visionary poems lay claim to the power of the spinster

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The Trailhead by Kerri Webster

I'm learning to allow for visions, the primary speaker of The Trailhead announces, setting out through a landscape populated by swan-killers, war torturers, and kings. Much of the book takes place in the contemporary American West, and these poems reckon with the violence inherent in that history. A conversion narrative of sorts, the book examines the self as a burned-over district, individual and cultural pain as a crucible in which the book's sibyls and spinsters are remade, transfigured. Sacralization/is when things become holy, also/when vertebrae fuse, the book tells us, pulling at the tensions between secular and sacred embodiment, exposing the essential difficulty of being a speaking woman. The collection arrives at a taut, gendered calling-a firm faith in the power and worth of the female voice-and a broader faith in poetry not as a vehicle of atonement or expiation, but as bulwark against our frailties and failings.

Table of Contents

I Hermeneutics Hill Walk Hulls Gulch The Night Grove River Walk II Winter Of (And I Took the Chemise Off) Conversion Narrative Of Deborah Reasonable Miracles The Spinster Project III This Is Manifest Swan/Not Swan One Eye Dilated Towards an Ethical Religiosity Skins Invert Sky IV Wilderness, Poetry, Sex Solastalgia Corpse Flower On the Nature of Righteous Action The Trailhead Vanitas Notes

Additional information

CIN0819578118G
9780819578112
0819578118
The Trailhead by Kerri Webster
Used - Good
Hardback
Wesleyan University Press
20180405
90
N/A
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