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ISBN: 9780618982677

Book Title: Mission Work : Poems

Publisher: HarperCollins

Item Length: 9 in

Publication Year: 2008

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Illustrator: Yes

Item Height: 0.2 in

Author: Aaron Baker

Genre: Poetry

Topic: Subjects & Themes / Nature, Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, Subjects & Themes / Places, General

Item Weight: 3.4 Oz

Item Width: 6 in

Number of Pages: 80 Pages

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Publisher

HarperCollins

ISBN-10

0618982671

ISBN-13

9780618982677

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63348678

Product Key Features

Book Title

Mission Work : Poems

Number of Pages

80 Pages

Language

English

Publication Year

2008

Topic

Subjects & Themes / Nature, Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, Subjects & Themes / Places, General

Illustrator

Yes

Genre

Poetry

Author

Aaron Baker

Format

Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height

0.2 in

Item Weight

3.4 Oz

Item Length

9 in

Item Width

6 in

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Trade

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2007-041925

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Reviews

"Wildly beautiful . . . Aaron Baker has written his own creation myth and discovered an original voice." --Carol Muske-Dukes, "Richly textured and self-confident . . . MISSION WORK is a haunting and powerful debut." --David Wojahn, "Wildly beautiful . . . Aaron Baker has written his own creation myth and discovered an original voice." --Carol Muske-Dukes "Richly textured and self-confident . . . MISSION WORK is a haunting and powerful debut." --David Wojahn "Aaron Baker's extraordinary journey in poems . . . has the power to awaken us all to the deep strangeness of being alive." --Gregory Orr "It is the encounter between an adult imagination . . . finding the child again which makes this work both compelling and moving." --Eavan Boland "How rare to find precision and immersion so alive in the same poetry . . . remarkably written and felt." --Stanley Plumly, "It is the encounter betweenan adult imagination . . . finding the child again which makes this work both compelling and moving." --Eavan Boland, "Aaron Baker's extraordinary journey in poems . . . has the power to awaken us all to the deep strangeness of being alive." --Gregory Orr

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Dewey Decimal

811/.6

Table Of Content

Foreword ix Chimbu Wedding 3 Notebook 4 Commission 7 Cargo Cult 12 Bones 13 Blood Debt 15 Bird of Paradise 16 The Taban Tree 17 Second Genesis 18 Sing-sing Kiama 21 Spirits of the Low Ground 22 The Red Snake 23 Bride Price 26 The Weaver 27 The Zero in the Branches 28 How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy? 29 Departures 33 Taro 39 Read and Say Nothing 41 Albino 42 A Prayer 43 Above Kerowagi 44 War 46 Evil Spirit 47 In Guru Woods 48 Darkness Legend 49 Ditowagle 50 The Day and the Hour 51 The Last Way 52 Highlands Highway 54 Highlands Mission 55 Notes 59 Acknowledgments 61

Synopsis

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., In this prize-winning collection, a debut poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea. 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: native people slaughter pigs for a Chimbu wedding ceremony; a papery flight of cicadas cuts through a cloud forest; 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 so the boy can catch sight of an elusive bird. Stanley Plumly, this year's guest judge, writes, "How rare to find precision and immersion so alive in the same poetry. Aaron Baker's pressure on his language not only intensifies and elevates his memories of Papuan 'mission work, ' it transforms it back into something very like his original childhood experience. 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.", In this prize-winning collection, a debut poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea. 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: native people slaughter pigs for a Chimbu wedding ceremony; a papery flight of cicadas cuts through a cloud forest; 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 so the boy can catch sight of an elusive bird. Stanley Plumly, this year's guest judge, writes, "How rare to find precision and immersion so alive in the same poetry. Aaron Baker's pressure on his language not only intensifies and elevates his memories of Papuan 'mission work,' it transforms it back into something very like his original childhood experience. 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."

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PS3602.A583M57 2008

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