A Different Distance: A Renga
Hacker, Marilyn; Naïr, Karthika
Language: English
Published by Milkweed Editions, 2021
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Hopkins Books, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.Hopkins Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Paperback edition, published by Milkweed, 2021. Two poets response to the COVID quarantine, a series of rangas. 124 pages, 5-1/2" x 8". No creases to the cover or spine. No writing, no former ownership marks, not a remainder, not a library discard. Edges of the text block are clean, and the binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory.
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- Title
- A Different Distance: A Renga
- Author
- Hacker, Marilyn; Naïr, Karthika
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1571315519
- ISBN 13
- 9781571315519
- Item weight
- 181 grams
- Dimensions
- 13.97 centimeters width by 20.96 centimeters height by 1.27 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- France, Literature In Translation, Poetry
An Indie Next Selection for December 2021
A Ms. Magazine Recommended Read for Fall 2021
Renga, an ancient Japanese form of collaborative poetry, is comprised of alternating tanka beginning with the themes of tōki and tōza: this season, this session. Here, from the “plague spring,” through a year in which seasons are marked by the waxing and waning of the virus, Hacker and Naïr’s renga charts the “differents and sames” of a now-shared experience. Their poems witness a time of suspension in which some things, somehow, press on relentlessly, in which solidarity persists—even thrives—in the face of a strange new kind of isolation. Between “ten thousand, yes, minutes of Bones,” there’s cancer and chemotherapy and the aches of an aging body. There is grief for the loss of friends nearby and concern for loved ones in the United States, Lebanon, and India. And there is a deep sense of shared humanity, where we all are “mere atoms of water, / each captained by protons of hydrogen, hurtling earthward.”
At turns poignant and playful, the seasons and sessions of A Different Distance display the compassionate, collective wisdom of two women witnessing a singular moment in history.
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