{"product_id":"antillia-paperback-softback-9781496236081","title":"Antillia (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496236081","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAntillia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenrietta Goodman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496236081\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e94 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Readers of this collection will have a hard time shaking the image of Antillia from the horizon of their thoughts, and they will be grateful for the haunting.\"-\u003ci\u003eBig Sky Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Henrietta Goodman’s is a poetry of testament, an ‘inventory of scars,’ a mosaic of shards and sorrows, a symphony whose movements straddle innocence and experience, whose cinematic cross-cutting of gutting images provides evidence of a wise spirit bruised yet irrepressible. \u003ci\u003eAntillia\u003c\/i\u003e gestures toward a taxing history of embodied travails, of ice apples, and ghosts, a lived terrain where Goodman sees ‘everything\/trying to divide yet stay attached\/at the root.’ Here’s a voice gritty, delicate, resilient, raw, a speaker with a handsaw who’s ‘no one’s wife and no one’s martyr,’ instead ‘a gasping head on a platter\/of water’ whose eyes cast floodlights on the ‘Forty billion poison gallons\/the geese see from air and mistake for a safe place.’ Savvy to feel gifted when the “ground is finally thawed enough to bury the dead”; brilliant to define ‘Happiness: the underside of a dried starfish,’ Goodman reminds us that a child can be ‘made of nothing,’ and that a single word can birth a shattered world of loss and misunderstanding in which we nevertheless abide.”-Katrina Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eLikeness\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Henrietta Goodman’s \u003ci\u003eAntillia\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of searching lyric poems that remember, joke, free associate, interrogate, worry, and examine the roots of words in pursuit of sense or solace. The world depicted is one of potential chaos and harm, though a quest for love, joy, and understanding has not been abandoned. In one Proustian meditation, the smell of Windex conjures memories of the speaker’s grade school crush, yet further consideration yields recollections of a Cold War-era bomb shelter. The bewildered (or sardonic) speaker asks, ‘Windex leads to Martin leads to beauty leads to bomb?’ The volume’s title suggests that a new world might be accessed, though at present it’s more myth than fact. These aesthetically impressive poems stun with their vigor, candor, and wit.”-Christopher Brean Murray, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Observatory: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“‘In the South, everything bites \/ and f*cks and pretends not to,’ Henrietta Goodman writes in one of her trademark poems that are alive and daring and nervy: all heart and smarts, no pretense. We’re so fortunate to have this new book, which moves from lovers to sons to metaphorical-real lakes to a fancy cowboy bar’s ‘ropes \/ of neon acrylic squeezed straight from the tube’ to fine art to stinging truths-insisting on loving and facing head-on a world that keeps failing and falling.”-Alexandra Teague, author of \u003ci\u003eOr What We’ll Call Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to exist. The ghosts that haunt this collection are phantom islands, moon lakes, lasers used to clean the caryatids at the Acropolis, earlier versions of the self, suicides, a madam from the Old West, petroleum, snapdragons, pets, ice apples, Casper, and a “resident ghost” who makes the domestic realm of “the cradle and the bed” uninhabitable. The ghosts are sons, fathers “asleep in front of the TV,” and a variety of exes-“lost boys” with names like The Texan and Mr. No More Cowboy Hat whom Henrietta Goodman treats with snarky wit but also with grief, guilt, and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although memories pervade this collection, these poems also look forward and outward into a world where social inequality and environmental disaster meet the possibility of metamorphosis.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e The Puppy and Kitten Channel\u003cbr\u003e What Are We Going to Turn Into?\u003cbr\u003e Gretel Returns\u003cbr\u003e Ice Apples\u003cbr\u003e Asked to Imagine the Death of My Son\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait, 1921, Alberto Giacometti\u003cbr\u003e Lake of Delight\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait Playing Tennis\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait with Emergency Landing\u003cbr\u003e Futures\u003cbr\u003e The Man behind the Curtain\u003cbr\u003e Lake of Winter (Berryman)\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait as a Stranger\u003cbr\u003e Caryatids\u003cbr\u003e I Want to Be a Door\u003cbr\u003e Opossum of the Month\u003cbr\u003e Sea of Desire\u003cbr\u003e Free Association\u003cbr\u003e Antillia\u003cbr\u003e Lake of Death\u003cbr\u003e Postcolonial Melancholia\u003cbr\u003e Red-Winged Blackbirds\u003cbr\u003e 2\u003cbr\u003e I Don’\u003cbr\u003et Require Durability in a Swan\u003cbr\u003e 3\u003cbr\u003e When Frankenstein Chased His Creature across the Ice\u003cbr\u003e The Men at Snowbowl Teaching Their Daughters to Ski\u003cbr\u003e The Petroleum Club\u003cbr\u003e Seahorse\u003cbr\u003e Organizational Systems\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait in the Blackfoot\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait with Northern Lights\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (Marc Chagall, 1912)\u003cbr\u003e Lake of Time\u003cbr\u003e Letter from the Ant Queen\u003cbr\u003e The Repetitive Bird\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait on Valentine’\u003cbr\u003es Day\u003cbr\u003e Pointillist Self-Portrait\u003cbr\u003e Mr. No More Cowboy Hat\u003cbr\u003e Letter from the Queen of the Crows\u003cbr\u003e Remember What You Said About Women\u003cbr\u003e Lake of Hope\u003cbr\u003e Resident Ghost\u003cbr\u003e The Texan\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait in Downtown Missoula\u003cbr\u003e Namaste\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600265081112,"sku":"9781496236081","price":13.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/antillia-paperback-softback-9781496236081","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}