The Century: Poems by Lorsung, Éireann
The Century: Poems by Lorsung, Éireann

The Century: Poems

Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in PoetryA Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020"A meticulously...
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Author: Éireann Lorsung
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The Century: Poems by Lorsung, Éireann

The Century: Poems

$32.44
The Century: Poems by Lorsung, Éireann

The Century: Poems

$32.44
Author: Éireann Lorsung
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award in Poetry
A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020"

A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence.

In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Éireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of "bodies in the fields becoming the fields," it's the simplicity that's most haunting. After a fire, "some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very / simple melting..." But these poems don't just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld.

The Century is evasive but thorny, splintering in the mind. This collection is a reminder that the arrival of each new century, decade, or year brings with it an invitation to join ongoing movements of resistance, air pockets of hope in the waters that we all swim or drown in.



Author: Éireann Lorsung
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781571314833


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/23/2020

About the Author
Éireann Lorsung is the author of two previous collections of poems: Her book, and Music for Landing Planes By, which was named a New and Noteworthy collection by Poets & Writers. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2016. Since completing an MFA at the University of Minnesota, Lorsung has studied printmaking and drawing at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and taught high school in rural France. While living in Belgium, she ran a micropress called MIEL Books and a residency space called Dickinson House for writers and artists. From 2017-2020 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing - Nonfiction at the University of Maine, Farmington.
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