Afterimages by Cathryn Hankla
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Description A journey of the eye, what the eye observes and what the eye cannot forget. These poems balance the death of family members against the monologue of a woman who comes to life under the coroner's knife. Memories of a life-saving class counterbalance the image of drowned lovers in the film Women in Love.
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Afterimages is a journey of the eye, what the eye observes and what the eye cannot forget. Cathryn Hankla writes,the worldI inhabit is a visual question,marked by a balancing lineof light on distant water, a mirrorhorizon.These poems balance the death of family members against the monologue of a woman who comes to life under the coroner's knife. Memories of a life-saving class counterbalance the image of drowned lovers in the film Women in Love.Photography, painting, and film all figure as arts that the mind uses to transcend loss and that the memory uses as aids to preserve the lost. Hankla's eye for detail, soft down between the shoulder blades of a young cousin, silvery waves in the hair of two aunts remembering their flapper days and displaying the braids they bobbed, is as immediate as a touch on the shoulder and as fascinating as light flickering on a movie screen.There is no such thing as perfect communicationas our train whistles north through fieldsof broken pines that my eyes climbbranch after broken branch to their needledwidow's walks. I look out over this landscape, panning through the movie it becomes,and my mind wanders until I see, moreclearly than ever before, yourfaces. Each window frames a changing composition,sometimes my own face, that registers only asafterimage.Hankla's poems are a changing composition of the dead and the living, of black and white challenged by the light falling on peach, plum, and green apple in a Vermeer painting. Ultimately, these poems offer us, in the poet's words, ""courage not to save / our best for bitter ends"" and ""strength / to repeat that this earth wouldn't have us forget.
Author Biography
Cathryn Hankla is the author of a collection of stories, Learning the Mother Tongue; a novel, A Blue Moon in Poorwater; and a previous poetry collection, Phenomena. Her poetry has appeared in New Virginia Review, College English, Denver Quarterly, and Woman Poet: The South. She teaches in the writing program at Hollins College, in Virginia.
Details ISBN 0807116858 ISBN-13 9780807116852 Title Afterimages Author Cathryn Hankla Format Paperback Year 1991 Pages 64 Publisher Louisiana State University Press GE_Item_ID:18339979; About Us
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