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Console

Title
Console / Colin Channer.
Author
Channer, Colin
Publication
  • New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
  • ©2023

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Description
125 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"Assured but chance-inflected, ever rooted in the local but always world-aware, Console reconsiders languages, geographies, and memories as luminous soundscapes. With lyric dexterity, Colin Channer jolts old notions of New England, cross-fading from the Berkshires to Anguilla, from Connecticut to Senegal. A dissolve to the poet's childhood in Jamaica occurs after glimpsing an old record player in Providence, leading to the title poem's meditations on reggae, religion, marriage, justice, and transgressions in the home. With allusive links to photography, music, sea mammals, mistranslation, and the universal ritual of 'the walk,' Console reorganizes our sense of time, collapses and rebreaks the remembered and certain, renames the familiar, reaches for settled etymologies, and turns words inside out." --
Subject
  • English poetry > 21st century
  • English poetry > Black authors
  • Jamaica > Poetry
Genre/Form
  • Poetry
  • Poetry.
Contents
Part I. Spumante -- Shunting from Dakar to Casamance -- How Long Could I Have Been Weightless? -- Lent -- Mostly Hamburg, 1972 -- Dub -- Bubble -- Oreja -- Console -- On Sugar and the Carnival of War -- Notes on a Minor Prophet -- Unconsoled -- Roots -- The Fat Man Spoke of Fish -- The Fixed Mutability of Things -- Bedazzled -- Redoubt -- Part II: Hurricane Suite. Acts 8:26-40 in Dub ("Ask for What You Want") -- Tetto -- Eye -- Bunch -- The Sea and Its Creatures -- Trouble on the Road Again -- Legend -- Aftermath -- Part III. Picturebook Brockton -- Ready ; Espoleta ; Star ; Lough -- Part IV. Barn -- Mons of Luke Al Dente -- All the Kin-ness in Foil Shrouds -- New Kingston -- Farfetching -- The Vendor of New Hearts -- Glaze Eyed at the Humble Shapings -- In Fuguing Wake.
Call Number
Sc D 23-673
ISBN
  • 9780374607227
  • 0374607222
LCCN
2023002243
OCLC
1345220280
Author
Channer, Colin, author.
Title
Console / Colin Channer.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Edition
First edition
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 23-673
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