Research Catalog

Title

Wild juice : poems / Ashley Mace Havird.

Author

Havird, Ashley Mace

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

65 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"In "Wild Juice," Louisiana poet Ashley Mace Havird gives readers an exploration of change, ranging from the extinction of a pre-human species to the present-day diminishment of sea life due to the climate crisis, and, closer to home, the death of the poet's father and her own aging. Running throughout these lyrics of loss is the richness of communal life, a current of hope, given substance by the juice of wild grapes that baptizes the poet's chin and that of her elderly, declining father, a figure whose presence haunts the book. Havird's poems move from sea coasts to the rural South to landlocked suburbia, speaking with wit, pluck, and ironic candor. Through striking evocations of the natural world, conveyed with a voice steeped in mature human experience, "Wild Juice" speaks memorably on behalf of a life which embraces us all"--

Series Statement

Southern messenger poets

Uniform Title

Southern messenger poets.

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "LSU Press Paperback Original"--Title page verso.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Skull Mount -- Gone to Wild -- Homo naledi -- Yearly Physical -- The Gardener -- Gone to Wild -- Reading the Trees -- Perseids -- The Sale -- Silver Plate -- Vernix -- Vanishing Act -- Diving before Dawn -- Tour of Grief -- Advent -- Golden Dawn -- Late for Reading, 1959 -- Fifty -- Sheltering My Father -- Operation -- 1939: My Fathers Adoptive Mother -- Babyland -- Soldier Boy -- A Sort of Prayer -- Grandmother Faceless -- Wreck -- Hand-Knit -- Beach Music -- This Unhealing -- Dementia: American Pickers -- Suitcase -- Hospice: Adoptive Mother Who Died Young -- Hospice: Grace -- Turtle and Snake -- Daisys Heart -- Deer -- Prayer Flags -- First Year -- Strays -- Phantom Limbs -- The Hound -- Yellow Dog -- Proof -- Migrant Worker -- Cyclades -- Waterline -- Habitat -- Ghost Net -- Earth Day -- Goats on Sifnos -- Fixing Junior -- Performers -- Bone Pit.

Call Number

JFE 21-5765

ISBN

• 9780807174739
• 0807174734

LCCN

• 2020028536
• 40030469677

OCLC

1161996093

Author

Havird, Ashley Mace, author.

Title

Wild juice : poems / Ashley Mace Havird.

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Southern messenger poets

Southern messenger poets.

Other Form:

Online version: Havird, Ashley Mace, Wild juice Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2021. 9780807175231 (DLC) 2020028537

Other Standard Identifier

40030469677

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5765