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HEARD-HOARD by Atsuro Riley (2021, Hardcover) “wildly original” poetry
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022678942X
ISBN-13
9780226789422
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050062319
Product Key Features
Book Title
Heard-Hoard
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
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0.1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
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0.7 in
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LCCN
2021-007909
Dewey Edition
23
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Reading Atsuro Riley's poetry is not only a pleasure, albeit a difficult and challenging one at times, it is an instruction manual. Heard-Hoard is a must read, not only for poets, but for all writers who take writing seriously. Who treat it as a vocation., Riley captures the accents of his hardscrabble world through language worked to a country eloquence., Every line is a mouthful in Atsuro Riley's wild and extravagant poems, a terrarium of 'perservating fiddler-crabs pockworking the pluff-mud.' In his poetry of profusion, syntax warps, and parts of speech change places. But this is no random riot of language: Riley brings into being a particular world, a childhood in the South Carolina lowcountry and its 'rudimental stories,' a land as violent and gorgeous as the idiom he invents for it., No one in American poetry has a voicebox quite like Atsuro Riley's--trained by ear on a mother's native Japanese, the raised vowels of the South Carolina Lowcountry, and Gerard Manley Hopkins's hyphen-happy, consonant-crowded compounds. In his second collection, Riley lends his inimitable instrument to boyhood acquaintances and communal complaints: 'We come gnawed by need on hands and knees.', A landscape charged with the bright light of discernment, where emotions are stirred by rhythmic torsion and sonic density., In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom--expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling--that will slake and succor readers for many years to come., The strongest new book of poetry this year. . . . Magnificent. . . . a long-awaited and satisfying book., Atsuro Riley is among our most important contemporary poets because he is among our most precise. Riley's meticulous phrasing, finely wrought syntax, and attunement to the peculiarities of rural speech make his most recent collection, 2021's Heard-Hoard , 'something important.' . . . Poetry, for Riley, is humanity's saving grace, the ladder out of the dirt., Riley splits words apart and arranges them in counterpoint to create a singular music, an effect that reminded me of cracking open a geode to reveal its secret inner glittering. Readers of these poems will enter a fully formed world, with its own characters, myths, chorus, and repetitions. Sonically and emotionally complex, Heard-Hoard is a collection to treasure and return to., Riley creates a uniquely American idiom--expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling--that will slake and succor readers for many years to come., Magnificently singular. If evocation of place, however pungent, were the main thing in Riley's work I wouldn't be very interested. But he's pursuing something a lot more ambitious, even abstract, that has deeply to do with, I almost want to say, sacred properties of language or language that could cast a spell against harm. He needs to make big sense; he has the deep confidence it takes to press language hard--not for self-amusement but to hear something he is desperate to hear., Linguistically and sonically intense, emotionally buffeting. . . . I can't think of a poet writing right now more original, more true to his internal tuning fork and singular vision., Lush and strange, Riley's voice is utterly transfixing, bringing South Carolina low country to life in enviable detail ('Her null eye long since gone isinglassy, opal') and rich music ('Crosses Clary bless her barrow up there now / Pausing and voweling there--/ the place where the girl fell'). . . . Phrases borrowed from Bishop, Dickinson, Heaney, Virgil, and Hopkins offer the book a splendid chorus. Riley's vision is rich with luminous lines.", A superb book about people attempting to make a life together in America. . . .This book is crucial to contemporary American poetry right now because it shows a lyric poet of unique formal gifts doing something we'd usually expect from a great novelist--exploring and fully rendering our striving to give shape and meaning to our lives together--all while maintaining the force and subtlety of his lyric gift., Both Heard-Hoard and Romey's Order immerse the reader in the South Carolina lowcountry, in a community filled with character, story, and landscape. However, in the second book, it is a tired and broken place. Romey's world, if not actively inviting, at least feels exciting, gorgeous in its terror. In both collections, the beauty in Riley's language is undeniable. It chatters with exuberance and discovery in Romey's Order ; in Heard-Hoard it moans like a blues. Both books present abuse, racism, and displacement, one through the eyes of a child, the other through the eyes of victims and scarred survivors. Perhaps these books pair like innocence and experience, or perhaps they pair like the individual and the collective. Either way they show a poet perpetually at the top of his craft, balancing music and silence to create power., Intoxicating. . . Sounds unheard and unrivaled since Atsuro Riley's acclaimed debut permeate Heard-Hoard . His elegant rhythms are atmospheric and robust, his neologisms transform the 'weed-embrangling snuffle-path,' his vernacular is magical as 'dew-sparks galaxifying the crabgrass.' Amid each mesmerizing reading, like dancing to a good song for a good long time before truly hearing its lyrics, Heard-Hoard 's remarkable stories crystallize; music becomes narrative. Atsuro Riley is an extraordinary poet. This book holds all the meanings of fantastic ., The category of the 'mythic' has been much cheapened by overuse, but Atsuro Riley's Heard-Hoard restores the term to its original and originary power. The English language has rarely been so richly augmented in such little space., In ways that few poets can access--think Hopkins, think Celan--Riley is at work in a different intelligence language holds, one folded underneath the ratios of daily logic. . . . We gain permission to enter a sacred and strange field, where words don't describe a life, but a life is inscribed in words., The collection calls us back to the roots of language, breaking it apart and putting it back together. Riley's inventiveness is an invitation to notice language's connection to the natural world, both equally complex and beautiful., Riley's oeuvre breaks new lyric ground with its singular style. This rich, polyphonic collection will keep readers entranced., Heard-Hoard by Atsuro Riley weaves reflections on America's landscapes and its people in poems that serve as portraits, stories, and hymns, combining personal accounts with lore.
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Table Of Content
CRACKLER CALL SUNDER SHED STRIPLINGS CHORUS: Petition MOTH CREEKTHROAT DUET CLARY CHORUS: Lobe STRANGER CAW CRAW GOLDHOUND CHORUS: Milk ORIGIN RHYTHM CHORUS: Seed ELEMENT CHORUS: Knell OAK LADDER CHORUS: Hankerer THICKET Notes Acknowledgments About the Author
Synopsis
Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this new collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people . Recognized for his "wildly original" poetry and his "uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative," Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard - Hoard , Riley has "razor-exacted" and "raw-wired" an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an "inscritched" dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their "old appetites as chronic as tides." From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring "time and time that yonder oak ," this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore., Recognized for his "wildly original" poetry and his "uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative," Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard - Hoard , Riley has "razor-exacted" and "raw-wired" an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an "inscritched" dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their "old appetites as chronic as tides." From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring "time and time that yonder oak ," this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.
LC Classification Number
PS3618.I5326H43 2021
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