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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Salient
    sub title: a poem
  name:
    name part: Gray, Elizabeth T.
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    edition: A New Directions Paperback Original.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 106 pages : maps ; 22 cm
  abstract: "In the foreword to her book-length poem Salient, Elizabeth Gray writes, "This work began by juxtaposing two obsessions of mine that took root in the late 1960s: the Battle of Passchendaele, fought by the British Army in Flanders in late 1917, and the chöd ritual, the core 'severance' practice of a lineage founded by Machik Lapdrön, the great twelfth-century female Tibetan Buddhist saint." Over the course of several decades, Gray tracked the contours and traces of the Ypres Salient, walking the haunted battlefield ground of the contemporary landscape with campaign maps in hand, reading "not only history, poetry, and fiction, but also unit diaries; contemporary reports and individual accounts; survey information and maps of all kinds; treatises on aerial photography and artillery tactics; and manuals on field engineering and tactical planning." Out of this material, through a process of collage, convergence, and ritual chöd visualization, Gray has composed a spare, fascinating, lyrical engagement with the Missing, in shell hole and curved trench, by way of amulets and obstacles. What is salient rises from the secret signs in song, like a blessing, protected from harm"--
  note: Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. ; with an afterword by Nathaniel Tarn.
  classification: PS3607.R3889 S25 2020
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9780811229241
  identifier: 0811229246
  identifier: 9780811229258
  identifier: 2020003272
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200124
    record change date: 20250318223614.4
    record identifier: in00004345847
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng