ISBN: 9781628973594
Editorial: Dalkey Archive Press
Autor: Reed, Tennessee
Año de edición: 2020
N° Paginas: 228
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: A new collection of poems from the American poet Tennessee Reed. From “California Burning 2017-2018” Will smoke days become the West’s new snow days? When an early morning dagger of red light cuts through my curtains I think of what I want to save in case I have to evacuate About the Author A graduate of UC Berkeley, Tennessee Reed is Secretary of Oakland PEN, and the author of the collections Circus in the Sky (I. Reed Books), Electric Chocolate (Raven's Bones Press), and Airborne (Raven's Bones Press). She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2005. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. It is no secret that I love to travel, especially by airplanes. I have studied airlines, their routes, hubs and safety records so long and so seriously that friends ask me to advise them on the best flights to book. I can still recite the flight numbers, dates of travel, airports and times of departure and landing for trips we made even ten, twenty, thirty years ago, which can prove handy, for instance, around tax time or when writing autobiographies. “The Study of a Young, Smiling Flight Attendant” and “Nihon No Ryokō” were both written in the summer of 1996 when I was nineteen years old and between my first and second years of college, after I had the great experience of traveling in Japan as arranged by the U.S. Department of State. On that trip I read at the University of Sapporo. These were all included in my third poetry collection, Airborne, which was published 1996 again by Raven’s Bones Press. I was in my second year of college. The Story of a Young, Smiling Flight AttendantIn an American Airlines ad that appears on CNN A young flight attendant walks down the gateway. With a curious frown, she’s looking at airplanes parked at the gates. She is like the woman in Portrait of Victorine Meurent by the painter Edouard Manet.The plane takes off. It’s a DC-10.Segue to inside the cabin. A little girl kneels in her mom’s lap, held close and tight as she looks over the back of a seat. The mother and daughter are right out of Madonna of the Chair by Raphael. Her mother is pointing at something as they sit and talk by the window.The young flight attendant appears again smiling at all the passengers like the woman in Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Woman.Segue to outside, in a heavenly blue sky. The American Airlines plane is flying, like the angel in A Maiden’s Dream, like Lorenzo Lotto.Segue again to the plane’s interior. A man and a woman holding hands like The Arnolfini Marriage by Jan Van Eyck. The flight attendant is smiling at them like the woman in The Magdalen by Bernadino Luini.The screen turns black. Ad copy rolls in white as a piano continues to play the advertising jingle.I wish I’d met this flight attendant with her inviting smile who fooled me into thinking I would find her in real life.I found her in a movie, called Baby’s Day Out. She played a mother looking for her baby who had memorized the images in a book and traveled all over town looking for the images just like I traveled over four centuries to find images in the world’s museums that matched that perfect world.1996Nihon No Ryokō (Japanese Travel)You can’t always take the airline you want to take like American or TWA sometimes you have to take whatever’s cheaper like United or NorthwestYou can’t always sit by the window on the airplane sometimes you have to sit by the aisle or in the middleYou can’t always get American food like hamburgers, pizza eggs, and ham sometimes you can only eat Japanese food like sushi, teriyaki, sunomono, and chawanmushiYou can’t stay in one place all of the time sometimes you have Shinkansen to or from a new city daily like Osaka or TokyoYou can’t always find clunky heeled loafer Japanese school girl shoes in your size in Kobe or Kyoto sometimes you have to go to Nagoya to find themYou can’t always rely on following the schedule like when I was told we would
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