
Aporia
John Kinsella
(Author)This title will be released on
June 3, 2025
Description
Have a talk with a ghost or a duck or contest the destroyers of the land, listen to the roos and slow worms, marvel and question and rage and love the language with John Kinsella's Aporia.
Aporia is a collectionsearching for logic where logic is hard to find or maybe can't be found. From
the death of the poet's father, to considering the complex, troubled, and often
distressing relationship between humans and non-human life, and through a sense
of ghosts being materially present even when we doubt their existence, we
undertake a journey in which reality and creative conception are in tension.
This tension is embodied in the figure of the poet Hölderlin, and also through
moments in Ovid's Metamorphosis, ongoing obsessions for Kinsella which
he constantly circles back to, reconsiders, and departs from. Whether
conversing with ghosts or the living, with animals or plants, these are poems
concerned with transformative relationships with and within the "natural world."
Kangaroos, echidnas, ducks, owls, deer, slow worms, and many other creatures
from around the world inhabit these pages, finding their own way through to
autonomy and self-declaration as the poet argues with himself over the dynamics
of life and death.
Product Details
Publisher | Turtle Point Press |
Publish Date | June 03, 2025 |
Pages | 152 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781885586285 |
Dimensions | N/A |
About the Author
Reviews
"Every page in Aporia is both a tree leaf and a poem leaf. John Kinsella's poems commune with jellyfish, kangaroos, possums, worms, dingoes, and willows, an ecstatic and mournful translation among life forms. Opening with a lament for the father and closing with the dying father and the poet's own ghostliness, Aporia shows Kinsella 'losing the landscape but finding the land, ' finding new poetic form in the rhythms of nature under threat, and in passionate protest, finding 'what rights to speak.' A visionary, wise, and generous book."
--Rosanna Warren, author of So Forth
"With this new collection, John Kinsella proves once again that he is one of the most profound and poignant environmental writers of our precarious times."
--Craig Santos Perez, National Book Award-winning author of from unincorporated territory [åmot]
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