Songs

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Songs by Derek Henderson, University Press of Colorado
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Derek Henderson ISBN: 9781885635402
Publisher: University Press of Colorado Publication: November 15, 2014
Imprint: Center for Literary Publishing Language: English
Author: Derek Henderson
ISBN: 9781885635402
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication: November 15, 2014
Imprint: Center for Literary Publishing
Language: English

Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

The poems in Derek Henderson’s Songs are “translations” of a film cycle of the same name, shot by American filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) to document his and his family’s life in Colorado in the mid-1960s. Where Brakhage’s films provide a subjective visual record of his experience bewildered by the eye, these poems let language bewilder the space a reader enters through the ear. Henderson tenders the visual experience of Brakhage’s films—films of the domestic and the wild, the private and political, the local and global—into language that insists on the ultimate incapacity of language—or of image—to fully document the comfort and the violence of intimacy. Songs expresses the ecstasy we so often experience in the company of family, but it just as urgently attests to ecstasy’s turbulent threat to family’s stability. Like Brakhage’s films, Henderson’s poems carry across into language and find family in every moment, even the broken ones, all of them abounding in hope.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

The poems in Derek Henderson’s Songs are “translations” of a film cycle of the same name, shot by American filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) to document his and his family’s life in Colorado in the mid-1960s. Where Brakhage’s films provide a subjective visual record of his experience bewildered by the eye, these poems let language bewilder the space a reader enters through the ear. Henderson tenders the visual experience of Brakhage’s films—films of the domestic and the wild, the private and political, the local and global—into language that insists on the ultimate incapacity of language—or of image—to fully document the comfort and the violence of intimacy. Songs expresses the ecstasy we so often experience in the company of family, but it just as urgently attests to ecstasy’s turbulent threat to family’s stability. Like Brakhage’s films, Henderson’s poems carry across into language and find family in every moment, even the broken ones, all of them abounding in hope.

More books from University Press of Colorado

Cover of the book Snow Leopard by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Creating Dialogues by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book The Eastern San Juan Mountains by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Blue Heron by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book The Myth of Quetzalcoatl by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Escape Velocity by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book An American Provence by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book A Chorus of Cranes by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Heritage Keywords by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Wearing Culture by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book The Beast by Derek Henderson
Cover of the book Transitions and Transformations by Derek Henderson
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy