Dreamwork (Mingling Voices)
Dreamwork (Mingling Voices) by Jonathan Locke Hart
English | Mar. 9, 2010 | ISBN: 1897425708 | 125 Pages | PDF | 0.5 MB
English | Mar. 9, 2010 | ISBN: 1897425708 | 125 Pages | PDF | 0.5 MB
Part of a series of books of poetry on dream and its relation to actuality, Dreamwork is an exploration of the then and there, here and now, of landscapes and inscapes over time. The poems explore past, present, and future in places from Canada through New Jersey, New York, and New England to England and Europe as part of the speaker's journey. A typology of home and displacement, of natural beauty and industrial scars unfold in the movement of the book.
Dreamwork is a collection of poems that bravely embraces history — personal, family, generational, national, and transnational. It traverses distant times and places, visits with the present, and carries forward into time. With much sensitivity and with no bias, Hart pays homage to antiquity, the classical, the modern, and the postmodern. This collection is a journey through time, a meditation on ruins and change, a serious undermining of temporal “facts,” and a subtle defamiliarization of what we refer to as “history.” “Call this settling with the Indians.”