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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780618982677
Mission Work is an arresting collection of poems based on Aaron
Baker’s experiences as a child of missionaries living among the
Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Rich with Christian and Kuman myths and stories, the poems explore
Western and tribal ways of looking at the world—an interface of
vastly different cultures and notions of spirituality, illuminated
by the poet’s own struggles as he comes of age in this unique
environment. The images conjured in Mission Work are viscerally
stirring: natives slaughter pigs for a Chimbu wedding ceremony; a
cloud of mosquitoes moves through a slender ray of sunlight; hands
sting as they beat a drum made of dried snakeskin. Quieter moments
are shot through with the unfamiliar as well. In “Bird of
Paradise,” a father angles his son’s head toward the canopy of the
jungle to catch sight of an elusive bird. Stanley Plumly, this
year’s judge for the Bakeless poetry prize, states, “Throughout
this remarkably written and felt first book, the reader, like the
author himself, ‘can’t tell if this is white or black magic,’
Christian, tribal, or both at once.”
Foreword
I Chimbu Wedding
Notebook
Commission
Cargo Cult
Bones
Blood Debt
Bird of Paradise
The Taban Tree
Second Genesis
Sing-sing Kiama
Spirits of the Low Ground
The Red Snake
Bride Price
The Weaver
The Zero in the Branches
How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy?
II Departures
Taro
Read and Say Nothing
Albino
A Prayer
Above Kerowagi
War
Evil Spirit
……
Notes
Acknowledgments
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