The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons

by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

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Overview

The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons imagines a human mission to Mars, a consequence of Earth’s devastation from climate change and natural disaster. As humans begin to colonize the planet, history inevitably repeats itself. Dystopian and ecopoetic, this collection of poetry examines the impulse and danger of the colonial mindset, and the ways that gendered violence and ecological destruction, body and land, are linked. “This time we’ll form more carefully,” one voice hopes in “Ecopoiesis: The Terraforming.” “We’ve started on empty / plains. We’ll vaccinate. We’ll make the new deal fair.” But the new planet becomes a canvas on which the trespasses of the American Frontier are rehearsed and remade. Featuring a multiplicity of narratives and voices, this book presents the reader with sonnet crowns, application forms, and large-scale landscape poems that seem to float across the field of the page. With these unusual forms, Rogers also reminds us of previous exploitations on our own planet: industrial pollution in rural China, Marco Polo's racist accounts of the Batak people in Indonesia, and natural disasters that result in displaced refugees. Striking, thought-provoking, and necessary, The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons offers a new parable for our modern times.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781946724267
Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication date: 03/01/2020
Series: ACRE
Edition description: 1
Pages: 86
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of Chord Box. Her poems appear in Boston Review, Missouri Review, Field, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, The Rumpus, and other journals, while her creative nonfiction can be found in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Travel Writing, and Prairie Schooner.

Table of Contents

The Frontier

The Frontier 3

Red Planet Application 6

Deep Space Crown 9

Backflash: The Pool at the Prosperous Hotel 14

Cumberland City, Mars 17

Amazonis, Mars 19

Astrobleme 21

Backflash: Hinge 25

Lolita's Rover Ballad 27

Backflash: Girl Myth 29

Ecopoiesis

(Phase I) 32

(Phase II) 33

(Phase III) 34

(Phase IV) 35

(Phase V) 36

(Phase VI) 37

(Phase VII) 38

Arcadia, Mars 39

Blueless Bay

Earth, Torn and Turned 43

Columbus, Mars 46

Backflash: Seven Catastrophes 49

Alcatraz, Mars 54

Lost Exit Interview 57

The Northern Lights, as Seen from Mars 60

Fugue for Wind and Pipes 68

Agnus Dei: Mars 71

Notes 73

Acknowledgments 75

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