Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
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"Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic." --Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of American Poets Fellowship
Urban tumbleweed, some people call it,discarded plastic bag we see in every city
blown down the street with vagrant wind.
--from Urban Tumbleweed Urban Tumbleweed is the poet Harryette Mullen's exploration of spaces where the city and the natural world collide. Written out of a daily practice of walking, Mullen's stanzas adapt the traditional Japanese tanka, a poetic form suited for recording fleeting impressions, describing environmental transitions, and contemplating the human being's place in the natural world. But, as she writes in her preface, "What is natural about being human? What to make of a city dweller taking a 'nature walk' in a public park while listening to a podcast with ear-bud headphones?"
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1555976565
ISBN13:9781555976569
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Graywolf Press
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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