{"product_id":"terra-incognita-9780821424759","title":"Terra Incognita","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis poignant collection of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief’s legacy. Following her mother’s battle with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collection with her rediscovery of joy in life’s small moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara Henning’s \u003ci\u003eTerra Incognita\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a dream, and the poems undo us the way dreams do, with imagery that is seared into our minds so completely we can’t shake it. I left this book reluctantly, a little dazed, and wanting to go back inside the world Henning created, \"the sky dusk-raw,\" \"the stars ‘moving braille.\" \u003ci\u003eTerra Incognita\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare book of poems, and Henning is a rare talent. -- Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones and Goldenrod\u003cbr\u003e“Grief turns out to be a place none of us knows until we reach it,\" Joan Didion once declared. Sara Henning crafts beautiful and protean music out of the terra incognita of motherlessness. The gallery of richly evoked lines and incidents suggests the poet is a dynamic, at-the-ready elegist for all she sees. \"In the belly of every summer day is a god \/ taking its first breath, so I learn to call it praying, \/ my mother forsaking the AC for a grace called smoking \/ in the car.\" Yes, one of the book’s major triumphs is that Henning, with artful precision and a daughter’s utmost love, makes the vital woman who was her first window on the world count for the reader as well. -- Cyrus Cassells, 2021 poet laureate of Texas\u003cbr\u003eIn Sara Henning’s stunning elegies, the mundane sears and sparks, infused with the speaker’s fierce grief. These poems accelerate, their energetic lines and images fueled by Henning’s imaginative precision and a lyricism that pops with its verbs and trills, whether telling a story of a mare’s head thrust into the window of a Chevy Nova, or the loss of a baby, or a mother’s Dilaudid-induced hallucinations of violent abduction while dying of cancer. The poems of Terra Incognita are thrilling with their vibrancy and beauty in the face of loss. -- Rebecca Morgan Frank, author of Oh You Robot Saints!\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTerra Incognita,\u003c\/i\u003e Sara Henning gives us a passionate group of elegies for her mother and an equally intense set of odes to her marriage. The territory she explores may be unknown ground, as her title suggests, but the poet knows where she stands. At every turn these poems are totally imaginative, totally alive. -- Mark Jarman, author of The Heronry: Poems and Dailiness: Essays on Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Terra Inferna\u003cbr\u003e Terra Inferna\u003cbr\u003e Elegy with Saltwater Taffy\u003cbr\u003e Queening\u003cbr\u003e Mom’s Eggs\u003cbr\u003e Elegy Beginning with the Birth of a Mountain\u003cbr\u003e God of the Kitchen Window\u003cbr\u003e French Fries\u003cbr\u003e Smoking in the Car\u003cbr\u003e Cancer\u003cbr\u003e Here Be Dragons\u003cbr\u003e II. Terra Incognita\u003cbr\u003e Terra Incognita\u003cbr\u003e Elegy for the Color Pink\u003cbr\u003e Once, I Prayed in the Water\u003cbr\u003e Woman in Flames\u003cbr\u003e The Boy\u003cbr\u003e God, You Are a Muscadine\u003cbr\u003e Still Life with Smoke\u003cbr\u003e Elegy with Blueberries\u003cbr\u003e Death Buried the Daughter I Was\u003cbr\u003e What the Time-Share Man at the Westgate Hotel Tried to Sell Me\u003cbr\u003e III. Terra Nova\u003cbr\u003e Terra Nova\u003cbr\u003e IV. Terra Firma\u003cbr\u003e Terra Firma\u003cbr\u003e Last Stash\u003cbr\u003e Traitor Angels\u003cbr\u003e Mercy Villanelle\u003cbr\u003e Elegy in the Shape of a River\u003cbr\u003e Weather Haibun\u003cbr\u003e They Call Her Mi Corazon\u003cbr\u003e My Mother Comes Back as a Dragonfly\u003cbr\u003e Cherishing\u003cbr\u003e Winter Gazebo\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406007673175,"sku":"9780821424759","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821424759.jpg?v=1730494221","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/terra-incognita-9780821424759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}