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Sandra Meek

Cumulative Sentence

  • 1 Still Life with Dysphonia | Translations: de
  • 2 Cumulative Sentence | Translations: de
  • 3 Still Life with Cupped Ear | Translations: de
  • 4 Still Life with Zodiac Boat and Glacier Lagoon | Translations: de
  • 5 Still, with Judas Goats
  • 6 Acacia karroo Hayne (White Thorn)
  • 7 Last Rites
  • 8 Still Life with Evolution: Amblyrhynchus cristatus (Marine Iguana), Fernandina, Galápagos
Language: english
Translations: german (Kumulativer Spruch)
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Cumulative Sentence

Mother of Coughed Blood’s Garnet Wings;
Mother of X-rays, of Cat-scans, of I’m-sorry-
to-say
; Mother of The-odds-are, Mother of Who-can-
tell
, Mother of Chemo, Crystal Pouch and Silver Tree;
Mother of Ambulance White-light, of Alarm-music;
Mother of Breathing Treatments, of Oxygen’s Umbilical Tubing;
Mother of Morphine; Mother of Cane, of Walker, of Wheelchair;
Mother of Powdered Rubber Gloves;
Mother of No, of Not-yet, Mother of Bedside Commodes;
Mother of The Body’s Tightening Prison, Mother of
Speed Dial, Mother of Ativan, Mother of Breathing Masks,
of the Flawed Weave of Air; Mother of Hospital Beds, Mother
of Adult Diapers, Mother of Keep-the-door-open, of Don’t-leave; Mother of Press-
the-call-light
, Mother of Call 911; Mother of No,
Not Yet
; Mother of Graying Grace, Mother of the Pooling
Blood; Mother of Tearing, of What-time-is-it,
Mother of Fever and Chill; Mother of Now, Mother of Glass
Eyes, Mother of Open Mouth and Filling Lungs;
Mother of the Catheter Bag, of Deepening Topaz, Mother of the Line
of No More; Mother of Bluing Skin, Mother of the Unspooled Heart,
Mother of Flight and Burn, Mother of Cardboard
and Ash, Mother of Smoke, Mother of Air, Mother,
Mother—

© 2012. Reprinted by permission of Persea Books, Inc. (New York) All rights reserved.
From: Road Scatter
New York: Persea Books, 2012
Audio production: Haus für Poesie, 2019
Categories: mother, death / grief, loss & separation, illness

Translations:

Language: german

Kumulativer Spruch

Mutter der Granatflügel ausgehusteten Bluts;
Mutter von X-rays, CT-Scans, von es-tut-mir-leid-
das-zu-sagen
; Mutter von die-Chancen-stehen, Mutter von
wer-weiß-schon
, Mutter von Chemo, Kristallbeutel
und Silberbaum; Mutter von Krankenwagenweißlicht, Alarmmusik;
Mutter der Atembehandlung, des intubierten Sauerstoffs aus der Nabelschnur;
Mutter von Morphium, Gehstock, Rollator und Rollstuhl;
Mutter gepuderter Einweghandschuhe;
Mutter von Nein, von noch-nicht, Mutter mobiler Toiletten;
Mutter des enger werdenden Gefängnisses Körper, Mutter von
Kurzwahl, Mutter von Tavor, Mutter von Atemmasken und falschen
Luftbrisen, Mutter der Krankenhausbetten, Mutter
der Erwachsenenwindeln, Mutter von schließ-nicht-die-tür,  von geh-nicht, drück-
bitte-den-Rufschalter
, Mutter von ruf-110, Mutter von Nein-
noch-nicht
; Mutter ergrauender Grazie, Mutter sich stauenden
Bluts; Mutter des Zerreißens, von wie-spät-ist-es,
Mutter von Fieber und Frösteln; Mutter von Jetzt, Mutter von Glas-
augen, Mutter des offenen Munds und sich füllender Lungen;
Mutter des Katheterbeutels, von dunkler werdendem Topas, des Strichs
in Niewieder; Mutter erblauenden Bluts, Mutter des abgespulten Herzens,
Mutter von Flug, Flucht und Brand, von Pappe
und Asche, Mutter von Rauch, Mutter von Luft, Mutter,
Mutter–

Übertragen von Yevgeniy Breyger
VERSschmuggel 2019, poesiefestival berlin
Sprachmittlerin: Catherine Hales
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Sandra Meek

photo © Paul O'Mara
* 29.11.1962, El Paso, TX, United States
lives in: Rome, GA, United States

Sandra Meek, born in El Paso, TX, was raised in Ft Collins, CO, and received her BA and MFA from Colorado State University, and in 1995 her PhD from the University of Denver. For two years, 1989 to 1991, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Manyana, Botswana.
Since 1996, Sandra Meek works at Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia,from 2011 on as Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing. She lives in Rome, Georgia.

Sandra Meek is the author of seven collections of poetry, and is widely published in literary journals. In 2007 she edited the book Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad.
She is a co-founder and editor of the Ninebark Press, chair of the Georgia Poetry Circuit and poetry editor in the Phi Kappa Phi Forum.

 photo © Paul O'Mara



Publications
  • The Circumference of Arrival

    Minneapolis: Elixir Press, 2001

  • Nomadic Foundations

    Minneapolis: Elixir Press, 2002

  • Burn

    Minneapolis: Elixir Press, 2005

  • Deep Travel

    Contemporary American Poets Abroad

    Edited and with an introduction by Sandra Meek

    Rome, GA: Ninebark Press, 2007

  • Biogeography

    North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press, 2008

  • Road Scatter

    New York: Persea Books, 2012

  • An Ecology of Elsewhere

    New York: Persea Books, 2016

  • Still

    Poems

    New York: Persea Books, 2020

Awards
  • 2003 Georgia Author of the Year

  • 2006 Dorset Prize

  • 2006 Georgia Author of the Year

  • 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Stipendium

  • 2015 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award

  • 2017 Georgia Author of the Year

  • 2017 Peace Corps Writers Award

Links
  • Homepage of Sandra Meek

  • Sandra Meek @ Persea Books

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