Green Noise Sprackland JeanPaperback / softback
Green Noise Sprackland JeanPaperback / softback Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. "Green…
Specifikacia Green Noise Sprackland JeanPaperback / softback
Green Noise Sprackland JeanPaperback / softback
Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. "Green noise" is the mid-frequency component of white noise--what some have called the background noise of the world--and these poems listen for what is audible, and available to be known and understood, and what is not. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper frequencies.
Some look into the natural world and our human place in it, by investigating hidden worlds within worlds: oak-apples, aphid-farms, firewood teeming with small life. Each poem is an attempt at location--in time, in place, in language. Others go in search of fragments of a mythic and often brutal past: the lost haunts of childhood, abandoned villages, scraps of shared history which are only ever partially remembered.
A physical relic or a mark on the landscape seems