Possum Nocturne
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Product Details
Author:
Doug Ramspeck
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
52
Publisher:
The University of Akron Press (November 1, 2010)
ISBN-13:
9780979436536
Weight:
4oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
BTPS-Lakeside_03172026-20260317.xml
Folder:
BTPS
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List Price:
$15.00
Publisher Identifier:
P-BTPS
Discount Code:
A
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-10:
0979436532
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
The University of Akron Press
Overview
The poems in Possum Nocturne imbue the physical world with human traits and human consciousness, the speakers imagining the landscapes of their days as alive with portentous meaning. In 1757 David Hume wrote in A Natural History of Religion:
There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds . . . hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry, where trees, mountains, and streams are personified.The works in this collection are about animism and superstition, about characters who are convinced that a hoot owl whispers to us, that a black tupelo limb is an augury, that three crows in a black willow tree portend death, that a dry stream bed suggests that a spouse or relative will have a miscarriage, and that we can read our futures in the entrails of a pickerel frog or in a hognose snake skin found draped beside a river bank. Indeed, snakes in these poems often serve as mysteries and occultations. What could be moreotherthan a creature without arms or legs, that muscles around on its own belly, that often has vertical slits as pupils, and that sticks out its tongue tounderstandthe air? The world for the characters in these poems, then-mostly poems situated in the American Midwest and American South-is alive with its own form of consciousness and secret meanings.
