Béatrice Szymkowiak
Autore di B/RDS
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Opere di Béatrice Szymkowiak
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazione (per mappa)
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- France
- Luogo di residenza
- Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Lille (BA|Modern French Literature)
Institute of American Indian Arts (MFA|Creative Writing/Poetry)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (PhD|English/Creative Writing) - Breve biografia
- Beatrice Szymkowiak is a French-American writer and scholar. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2017, and obtained a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2022. She is the author of RED ZONE, a poetry chapbook, and the recipient of the 2022 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry for her full-length collection B/RDS, which will be published by the University of Utah Press in 2023. Her work has appeared in several poetry magazines including Terrain.org, The Berkeley Review, The Portland Review, OmniVerse, The Southern Humanities Review, and many others. Exploratory and experimental, her poetry investigates the new environmental trajectory of the Anthropocene.
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Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.I received this as a LibraryThing ARC, which always makes things more difficult. I don't read poetry very often, let alone contemporary poetry, and I'm a little lost as to how to review this.
B/RDS is a collection of poetry examining the "new environmental trajectory of the Anthropocene and our relationship with the other-than-human world." It uses both the text of Audobon's Birds of America and the author's—it is part archival, part imaginative—I should have loved it.
This book didn't do it for me, unfortunately. It's extremely Literary (capital L). I watched the author do a reading of this work on YouTube to help me out a bit, and while it taught me how to read the work with all of its slashes, I found the text of the work often too obfuscated to enjoy much. To me, poetry is about experiencing feeling through concise language. I didn't feel much, because it was just too damn... difficult to parse! You know what I'm talking about. It's just always a little too vague, and somehow it's also always purposeful. It's MFA circlejerk work! I've always had issues with the scene and its output, so while it's not for me, maybe it's for you. Don't let my opinion tarnish you picking this up. I just don't think I'm the audience for it.… (altro)
B/RDS is a collection of poetry examining the "new environmental trajectory of the Anthropocene and our relationship with the other-than-human world." It uses both the text of Audobon's Birds of America and the author's—it is part archival, part imaginative—I should have loved it.
This book didn't do it for me, unfortunately. It's extremely Literary (capital L). I watched the author do a reading of this work on YouTube to help me out a bit, and while it taught me how to read the work with all of its slashes, I found the text of the work often too obfuscated to enjoy much. To me, poetry is about experiencing feeling through concise language. I didn't feel much, because it was just too damn... difficult to parse! You know what I'm talking about. It's just always a little too vague, and somehow it's also always purposeful. It's MFA circlejerk work! I've always had issues with the scene and its output, so while it's not for me, maybe it's for you. Don't let my opinion tarnish you picking this up. I just don't think I'm the audience for it.… (altro)
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.I really didn’t understand this book. I think the birds escaped from here too. This is simply cryptic. Sorry.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 9
- Popolarità
- #968,587
- Voto
- 2.4
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 2
Poems themselves were hit and miss with me. I'd say a quarter vaguely brought me any sort of imagery, meaning very little once finished. Another quarter were the opposite and quite vividly created a scene and feeling in my head. The rest were somewhere between those feelings. The first part and fourth were my favorites and most successful at creating a meaningful reading experience.
Overall if you're seeking poetry on nature and birds I'd maybe recommend this, at least a few poems would work for you. If you're not seeking that specifically, I would not recommend.
Read a reviewed after receiving an early copy through LibraryThing.… (altro)