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Peregrinatio: Poems for Antarctica

Peregrinatio: Poems for Antarctica

Heffernan, Gloria

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639803491
ISBN13: 9781639803491
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jul 20 2023
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Peregrinatio, poet Gloria Heffernan's sacred journey to Antarctica paradoxically bestows on her the roles of witness... trespasser...messenger [and]...pilgrim. Surrounded by humpback whales, penguins, skuas, krill, albatross, ice, and-of course-history, she confronts what the world is both with and without us. In part, Peregrinatio is an environmental treatise. In these poems, we experience a volcano...only playing dead...[and a] beach [as] museum of decomposition. Everywhere, it seems, are ghosts of whalers where a ruptured cruise ship/hemorrhages black ooze, and humans continue to play at danger. However, as these poems attest, here also is a world of wonder and epiphany, a voyage into the unknown/where miracles still abound. How to reconcile the two? In poem after poem, Gloria Heffernan invites us to examine with her this perplexing dichotomy.


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