{"id":6032,"date":"2022-09-02T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/?post_type=product&p=6032"},"modified":"2024-09-26T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T14:05:14","slug":"free-clean-fill-dirt","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/free-clean-fill-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Clean Fill Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free Clean Fill Dirt<\/em>, Caryl Pagel’s third book of poetry, is a study in disruption, interruption, and ruin, tracing geological and historical palimpsests via caesura, fragmentation, echo, and humor. In these rigorous, formally adventurous poems Pagel calls upon the playful, unsettling sonic sensibilities of writers such as Lorine Niedecker, Russell Atkins, Frank O’Hara, and H. D., as she ties the music of place to personal inquiry: \u201cThere is \/ something in the way \/ of the thought,\u201d the narrator posits: is it sound, desire, violence, or image? Pagel dwells in the anti-ordinary ordinary strata of Midwestern mythologies, emergencies, landscapes, and crises. Using a blend of ecopoetic, visual, and archival modes, Free Clean Fill Dirt <\/em>is a collection of poems making intimacy of deep time and vanitas of vision.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/h2>\n

Caryl <\/span>Pagel<\/span> is the author of two previous books of poetry,\u202f<\/span><\/span>Twice Told<\/span><\/span><\/em>\u202fand\u202f<\/span><\/span>Experiments I Should\u202fLike\u202fTried at My Own Death<\/span><\/span><\/em>, as well as a collection of essays,\u202f<\/span><\/span>Out of Nowhere\u202f<\/span>Into<\/span>\u202fNothing<\/span><\/span><\/em>. She is an editor and\u202fpublisher at Rescue Press and the director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. <\/span>Pagel<\/span> teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program<\/span>.\u202f\u202f<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Praise for Free Clean Fill Dirt<\/em><\/h2>\n

Caryl Pagel\u2019s <\/span>Free Clean Fill Dirt<\/span><\/i> manifests a rare and sustained vision for the sonic capacities of poetry to excite transformative processes in its readers. Hers is a prosodic practice that reminds us that the human body, comprised of water, is (we are) excellent conductors of sound. This collection invites us to be joyful participants in pronouncing seemingly chaotic rhyme schemes, but always within the poem\u2019s logic, holistic and unbound\u2014and in balance with the other formal elements of the book\u2019s local and other-wordly (which may be interior) charms.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014Stacy Szymaszek<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u201ccity\u2019s past\u2019s past,\u201d the doomed ecology, \u201cgrowling,\u201d strangers, stirred speech, predictable rhymes, a \u201cdearth of mentors,\u201d video of a twelve-year-old boy being shot in the park, warnings, pre-owned plots our souls are tethered to: \u201cwhat kind of poem \/ Would you \/ Make out of that?\u201d wrote Langston Hughes. Would you, like Pagel, take in a sign in \u201cgravekeeper\u2019s window\u201d like <\/span>Free Clean Fill Dirt<\/span><\/i>? These are poems that say: if caskets are without windows then their exteriors will be embellished. Taking seriously Hughes\u2019 question Pagel\u2019s <\/span>FCFD<\/span><\/i> crafts from the evidence she comes upon (its shards): a documentary, projective, found, sought and eco-poetics that takes the things as they exist and makes from a \u201cconventional means \/ of making\u201d something much wilder. Come see the daily and the buried be unburied. Come for the vastness of the within here.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014Michelle Taransky<\/strong><\/p>\n

Strange country, and so ordinary about its strangeness\u2014<\/span>Free Clean Fill Dirt <\/span><\/i>really makes you wonder if everything is destined on our planet for an early, earthly, grave. What I especially love about Caryl Pagel’s latest book is that she asks an important question: “Is it \/ simpler to accept such fate when one \/ is what one \/ calls a woman?” Hinting that women across history are used to neglect and disappointment from the personal, cultural, and to the global, I consider if this is a strength when responding to ecological disaster. Will women, as caretakers and nurturers, be required to rise to the occasion to save what can be salvaged? What if we have mixed feelings about it\u2014”if \/ it is the end can we \/ claim we clung \/ to it?” In the four stages of grief, this is a book grappling with acceptance and what comes after that.\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u2014Nikki Wallschlaeger<\/strong><\/p>\n

Media<\/h2>\n

Interview at FullStop.net.<\/a><\/p>\n

Interview<\/a> at Cleveland Review of Books.<\/p>\n

Resonating with metaphysical awareness, humor, and clarity, Caryl Pagel\u2019s\u00a0Free Clean Fill Dirt\u00a0<\/em>is gracefully unglamorous in its foreboding, tactile verse that seeks to enumerate the material and moral decline of our planet. \u2014Zachary Kinsella<\/a>, Heavy Feather Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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