Carrion
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Just as Odin's ravens, named Huginn and Muninn (translated to Thought and Memory), would whisper everything he couldn't see, so too do these and other mythical ravens-of Athena, the Biblical Eve and Noah, Coronis, and others-function in Jamison's essay collection: they are tools to interpret and make meaning of their world, rent as it is between the rural and urban, the romantic and abusive, where language is both surfeit and dearth. This collection sees mythical ravens murmur alongside the actual bone and viscera of crows, starlings, and pigeons in disarming explorations of desire and destruction, the body and creation. Carrion is an ambitiously structured collection that honors the literary forebears at its center while lamenting our inability to communicate anything-love, need, hope-except in metaphors.
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Wes Jamison is the author of two chapbooks, On Making a Golem (forthcoming, swallow::tale press) and Melancholia (Essay Press), and is a noted author in Best American Essays. They earned an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago and a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They currently teach at Del Mar College and reside in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Carrion
- Toxicity
- Periphery
- Carrion
- To Build a Ferris Wheel
- I thought it would happen as in a myth.
- Coronis
- Carrion
- Mother
- Mother
- Conflagration
- How Not to Drown
- Carrion
- Carrion
- Carrion
- No-One Suspects Your Shoulder Blades of Wings
- Eve
- Notes
- Biographical Note
- Back Cover
