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Hey, Marfa : poems
- Title
- Hey, Marfa : poems / Jeffrey Yang ; paintings and drawings by Rackstraw Downes.
- Author
- Yang, Jeffrey
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-2066 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Downes, Rackstraw
- Description
- 151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm
- Summary
- Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work, and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert, township, sky, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? Out of those experiences and questions, Yang has fashioned a fascinating, multifaceted work--an anti-travel guide, an anti-Western, a book of last words--that is a lyrical, anthropological investigation into history, culture, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa's landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang's texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- Subtitle from cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2066
- ISBN
- 9781555978198
- 1555978193
- LCCN
- 2018934487
- OCLC
- 1019930394
- Author
- Yang, Jeffrey, author.
- Title
- Hey, Marfa : poems / Jeffrey Yang ; paintings and drawings by Rackstraw Downes.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Downes, Rackstraw, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2066