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I Woke a Lake
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Series: Mountain West Poetry
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ISBN10: 1885635931
ISBN13: 9781885635938
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Jun 15 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.62 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781885635938
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Jun 15 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.62 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
I Woke a Lake faces the anxieties of climate change, extinctions, and political chaos. Susan McCabe weaves together the fragile fabric of worlds imagined and lost, both palpable and present. Poised between reveries and ruins, the book traverses several layers: the Ice Age; the excavation of the oldest female body; ancient Los Angeles before humans; and, in Sweden (McCabe's mother's home country), the 377-million-year-old meteor-made Siljan lake, in conversation with the oldest tree alive. These channeled non-human voices, both whimsical and uncanny, animate more recent landscapes--such as Dalarna's nearby seventeenth-century copper mine, now closed, along with a fantastical modern ice hotel in a state of meltdown. The landmarks of loss are sometimes dizzy-making as McCabe celebrates her childhood pantheism and queer development in West Hollywood, mourns dead relatives and lost habitats, and confronts her masculine lineage, blotted out through grief, addiction, and war. I Woke a Lake holds up an invisible telephone connecting recurrent locales, among them, blasted orchards, the Veterans' Cemetery, Elizabeth Bishop's childhood home in Great Village, grieving parties, and a cryopreservation site. These different layers reverberate with each other, taking on a haunted and haunting music, reaching toward an otherworldly, tender overhearing.
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