Called Back

Author:   Rosa Lane
Publisher:   Tupelo Press, Incorporated
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9781961209107


Pages:   102
Publication Date:   02 September 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Rosa Lane brings a necessary, gender-fluid, feminist perspective to the Emily Dickinson table of debate. In bold tribute with a title utilizing the last two words Emily Dickinson wrote, Rosa Lane's Called Back converses with one of our greatest poets in theatrical monologue—decoding secrets amid the blatant. Evoked by epigraphs selected from Dickinson's work, Lane's poems, through her I-speaker, reveal the extraordinary to be found in the ordinary and speak to the struggle of sexual orientation, otherness, and the challenges of living in a Calvinistic socioreligious world of oughts and noughts as evidenced in Dickinson's poems. From sapphic eroticism and subsequent pangs of nonbelonging to tacking next life as a welcome reprieve, poems in Called Back create a de novo dot-connecting lyrical narrative.

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Author:   Rosa Lane
Publisher:   Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Imprint:   Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.172kg
ISBN:  

9781961209107


ISBN 10:   1961209101
Pages:   102
Publication Date:   02 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Othered [I speak] 3 For Eve at the Evergreens 4 The Victorian Dissident 6 French Sardines 8 Gentian 10 Foxglove [disambiguation] 12 Dear Sir, (No. 1) 15 Dear Sir, (No. 4) 16 Sparrow’s Sonnet 17 Dear Sir, (No. 7) 18 My Voyage 20 Dear Susan, I am your Antony — Emily D. 21 Marooned 22 My Cleopatra 24 In the bedlam of my chest 25 Kiting April — 26 Poiesis 28 II. Arabian Nights, #1 33 Dear Divers, my Fellow Men — 34 Dents de Lion 36 The Daguerreotype [camera obscura] 38 Arabian Nights, #2 40 Susan’s Calls are like Antony’s Supper — 41 Paire de corps 42 Clothesline 43 Feral nights curl 45 My Windows 47 Jasminum 49 Far Reach 50 Arcturus 52 III. The Last Fall 57 Today, I go fugitive — 58 Dear Sir, (No. 3) 59 Bedchamber, Last Days 61 Bedchamber with Bright’s 62 Limning, Death 63 Transitus, when the blue mist rises 64 Dear Sir, (No. 6) 67 I V. The Loaded Gun (Translation No. 1) 73 The Loaded Gun (Translation No. 2) 76 The Loaded Gun (Translation No. 3) 78 Notes 81 Acknowledgments 87

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"“Rosa Lane’s Called Back breaks through the membrane that separates us from Dickinson’s time. Here, we enter Dickinson’s world brand new with the vigor of research re-imagined, obsession expressed with prolific inventiveness and mounting urgency, and language that astonishes in its apt, abundant, and irresistible embrace of sound. This is a book fearless in its approach and lavish in its accomplishment.”   * Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, author of The Promise of a Normal Life: A Novel * ""What marvelous, feral, eccentric, sweetly erotic poems! Like a candle in a frosted window, they illuminate—with electrifying language—the shadows of human love."" * Henri Cole, author of Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022 * “Reading Called Back is like floating through water, dipping into Lane’s lyric obsession with Emily Dickinson as though on a raft made of erudite diction, vowel sounds, line breaks, and longing. Or it’s like Lane’s doppelganger-speaker—this less constrained Emily—laid her body out across the ocean and said, now float on me. The main conceit is to imagine, evoke, and call back to a new, less-othered Emily Dickinson, a 21st century Emily Dickinson more able to openly “swim / up the fish weir…spawn / in sandy silt along the odic / thighs of the Loire [to] flutter / our little deaths.” This sexy book does not protest. It does not rant or shriek any grievance, though God knows it has a right to. Instead, it gives Emily back the “feral / utterances” Lane suggests her circumstances and time in history forbade her. This radical homage will delight Dickinson scholars and poets alike. And those who don’t know yet how much poetry can liberate them should read it too.”   * Adrian Blevins, author of Status Pending * “Lane’s poems in tribute to Dickinson are a linguistic and lyrical tour de force, an object lesson in how the music of poetry finds purchase in the gaps between sound and silence. Lane's charged lines propel us through space and (un)soundings that bridge breathing and not breathing in poems that can render us as breathless as they leave us brimming. Ruah!” * Thomas McGuire, author of Steller's Orchid *"


"""Lane's poems in tribute to Dickinson are a linguistic and lyrical tour de force, an object lesson in how the music of poetry finds purchase in the gaps between sound and silence. Lane's charged lines propel us through space and (un)soundings that bridge breathing and not breathing in poems that can render us as breathless as they leave us brimming. Ruah!""-- ""Thomas McGuire, author of Steller's Orchid"" ""What marvelous, feral, eccentric, sweetly erotic poems! Like a candle in a frosted window, they illuminate--with electrifying language--the shadows of human love.""-- ""Henri Cole, author of Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets, 1994-2022"" ""Reading Called Back is like floating through water, dipping into Lane's lyric obsession with Emily Dickinson as though on a raft made of erudite diction, vowel sounds, line breaks, and longing. Or it's like Lane's doppelganger-speaker--this less constrained Emily--laid her body out across the ocean and said, now float on me. The main conceit is to imagine, evoke, and call back to a new, less-othered Emily Dickinson, a 21st century Emily Dickinson more able to openly ""swim / up the fish weir...spawn / in sandy silt along the odic / thighs of the Loire [to] flutter / our little deaths."" This sexy book does not protest. It does not rant or shriek any grievance, though God knows it has a right to. Instead, it gives Emily back the ""feral / utterances"" Lane suggests her circumstances and time in history forbade her. This radical homage will delight Dickinson scholars and poets alike. And those who don't know yet how much poetry can liberate them should read it too."" -- ""Adrian Blevins, author of Status Pending"" ""Rosa Lane's Called Back breaks through the membrane that separates us from Dickinson's time. Here, we enter Dickinson's world brand new with the vigor of research re-imagined, obsession expressed with prolific inventiveness and mounting urgency, and language that astonishes in its apt, abundant, and irresistible embrace of sound. This is a book fearless in its approach and lavish in its accomplishment."" -- ""Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, author of The Promise of a Normal Life: A Novel"""


Author Information

Rosa Lane, poet and architect, is author of four poetry collections, including Chouteau's Chalk, Tiller North, and Roots and Reckonings. Her work won the 2018 William Matthews Poetry Prize and a Maine Literary Award and is forthcoming or has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Cutthroat, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, RHINO Poetry, River Heron Review, Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence and a PhD in sustainable architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She splits her time between her native home in coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her wife.

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