About the book
In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, damage against the desires of the heart. For the poet, a factory fire in late-nineteenth-century Portland becomes a tool for precise knowing: \"The phases of wood are a means / of dead reckoning: burn what is built / and gauge your passage / by what is lost.\" Even in so quotidian an act as the planting of potatoes, Doran's sure, meticulous, and carefully calibrated lines reveal the intensity of our yearnings: \"What carried us from year to year was yield: / potatoes in, potatoes out, like rowing.\" Variously plaintive, passionate, intuitive, and serious, the voice in Resin tells how the natural world, in both its wildness and regularity, expresses and mediates human longing.You entered me like migraine, left
like migraine a private vacancy.
The darkness outside is great and wild.
Blue plums falling from an old tree
demand we believe in wildness,
fallingness. What's the matter is memory,
shrivel and tart. How in this sweet
aftermath of everything the mind
should settle on plums (blue plums!)
is one of the mysteries. That God
and my window-blinds should conspire
to refract the light to look like plums.
Out in the wild nothing.
-- from \"Blue Plums\"
Editions of Resin
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807130759
- PDF
- ISBN 9780807167533
Read an Excerpt
In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, damage against the desires of the heart. For the poet, a factory fire in late-nineteenth-century Portland becomes a tool for precise knowing: \"The phases of wood are a means / of dead reckoning: burn what is built / and gauge your passage / by what is lost.\" Even in so quotidian an act as the planting of potatoes, Doran's sure, meticulous, and carefully calibrated lines reveal the intensity of our yearnings: \"What carried us from year to year was yield: / potatoes in, potatoes out, like rowing.\" Variously plaintive, passionate, intuitive, and serious, the voice in Resin tells how the natural world, in both its wildness and regularity, expresses and mediates human longing.You entered me like migraine, left
like migraine a private vacancy.
The darkness outside is great and wild.
Blue plums falling from an old tree
demand we believe in wildness,
fallingness. What's the matter is memory,
shrivel and tart. How in this sweet
aftermath of everything the mind
should settle on plums (blue plums!)
is one of the mysteries. That God
and my window-blinds should conspire
to refract the light to look like plums.
Out in the wild nothing.
-- from \"Blue Plums\"
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Resin about?
In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, damage against the desires of the heart. For the poet, a factory fire in late-nineteenth-century Portland becomes a tool for precise knowing: \"The phases of wood are a means / of dead reckoning: burn what is built / and gauge your passage / by what is lost.\" Even in so quotidian an act as the planting of potatoes, Doran's sure, meticulous, and carefully calibrated lines reveal the intensity of our yearnings: \"What carried us from year to year was yield: / potatoes in, potatoes out, like rowing.\" Variously plaintive, passionate, intuitive, and serious, the voice in Resin tells how the natural world, in both its wildness and regularity, expresses and mediates human longing.You entered me like migraine, left
like migraine a private vacancy.
The darkness outside is great and wild.
Blue plums falling from an old tree
demand we believe in wildness,
fallingness. What's the matter is memory,
shrivel and tart. How in this sweet
aftermath of everything the mind
should settle on plums (blue plums!)
is one of the mysteries. That God
and my window-blinds should conspire
to refract the light to look like plums.
Out in the wild nothing.
-- from \"Blue Plums\"
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Resin?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Poetry / Poems
Where can I read a sample of Resin?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780807130759
Is Resin part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Resin?
Geri Doran
Who is the Publisher of the book Resin?
LSU Press
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Resin is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807130759) and pdf(ISBN 9780807167533)
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