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Anchorage
Quizzical and full of quizzes—this collection of poems investigates humanity’s often toxic and arrogant relationship to place and wildlife in various settings, with a focus on Alaska and Las Vegas.
Blurbs:
“Anchorage implies a place of safety but isn’t. Nothing is quite what it seems where Hunter’s poetry ventures and observes. It is a moving soundscape taking us who knows where. The gorgeous fish you came across? It’s a killer pufferfish.”
—Angela Gardner
“Anchorage is a mesmeric Wunderkammer, each poem a glass case of curiosities to be marvelled at, pondered, comprehended. The pages twinkle with live-wire language, biting humour and quirky objects (an elephant foot, ivory bagpipes, a neon-sign graveyard, jellyfish chandeliers). As Hunter traverses the globe, searching for ‘a place to inhabit / (her)self,’ the language also meanders bravely, finding its own meaning outside ‘the polish of cut & dried expectations.’ With a deep sense of ecology founded in compassion, Hunter encourages us to renew our connections with the birds, beasts and landscapes of our tortured earth. We exit the Wunderkammer better people: more awake, more aware, more in love with our surroundings.”
—Alison Flett
Blurbs:
“Anchorage implies a place of safety but isn’t. Nothing is quite what it seems where Hunter’s poetry ventures and observes. It is a moving soundscape taking us who knows where. The gorgeous fish you came across? It’s a killer pufferfish.”
—Angela Gardner
“Anchorage is a mesmeric Wunderkammer, each poem a glass case of curiosities to be marvelled at, pondered, comprehended. The pages twinkle with live-wire language, biting humour and quirky objects (an elephant foot, ivory bagpipes, a neon-sign graveyard, jellyfish chandeliers). As Hunter traverses the globe, searching for ‘a place to inhabit / (her)self,’ the language also meanders bravely, finding its own meaning outside ‘the polish of cut & dried expectations.’ With a deep sense of ecology founded in compassion, Hunter encourages us to renew our connections with the birds, beasts and landscapes of our tortured earth. We exit the Wunderkammer better people: more awake, more aware, more in love with our surroundings.”
—Alison Flett
113 pages, Paperback
Published November 20, 2020
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