Air Fare : Stories, Poems, and Essays on Flight
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 188933099X
Edition: Paperback; 2004-08-15
Summary:
From take-off to landing and everything in between, this anthology is
about flying and the culture surrounding this precarious method of
transportation. From the awe of being airborne to the shrink-wrapped
airplane meals, from the phobia of flying to the very real reason for
that fear, everything is explored."One hundred years after Orville
and Wilbur Wright's first manned flight near Kitty Hawk, N.C., poets
respond in a multitude of ways to the simple yet miraculous fact that
humans take to the air and stay there. Maybe we're more blasé now
than Apollinaire was when he celebrated 'the machine that flies early
in the twentieth century.' But looking out of a small window, we may
still gasp in wonder as we fly over Bryce Canyon, or as we take off
and land at dusk, the heavens lit up with their psychedelics. We can
experience, in William Matthews' words, 'the blue, sourceless,
amniotic light / in which the world, hidden by clouds, seems / from
39,000 feet to float.' We began to work on this anthology before 9/11
and in the days after, when selecting the poems, I still wanted to
honor the original conception—to make an anthology of literary works
inspired by the myriad aspects of flying. There are as many
individual responses to these experiences as there are writers who
have written about them: awe, boredom, fear, surprise, delight,
transcendence. The poems in this anthology offer differing
perspectives, in many voices and styles. . .. Flying, floating, in
between: a very good place for poets, for whom rumination comes as
second nature." —From the Introduction by Coeditor Judith Taylor Air
Fare ContributorsDiane AckermanMargaret AtwoodNed BalboEllen
BassJoshua BeckmanSharon BryanAndrea Hollender BudyKelly CherryAlain
de BottonRuss FranklinRichard GarciaLise GoettAlbert
GoldbarthRosemary GriggsJeffrey HarrisonBrenda HillmanChristine
HumeBrigit Pegeen KellyMartha KinneyPeter LaSallePhilip LevineLee
MartinWilliam MatthewsIan McEwanCampbell McGrath Carol
Muske-DukesMarilyn NelsonNaomi Shahib NyeKim PondersKevin
PruferBarbara RasSherrod SantosNatalie SerberEnid ShomerBruce
SmithSusan StewartTerese SvobodaJames TateJean ValentineArthur
VogelsangCharles Harper WebbJan WesleyColson WhiteheadGary Young
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