Solastalgia Public
Cadigan, Hilary Megan (2010)
Published
Abstract
The word solastalgia is a combination of the Latin word
solacium (comfort) and the
Greek root - algia (pain). Coined by Glenn Albrecht in 2004,
it refers to "the pain
experienced when there is recognition that the place where one
resides and that one loves
is under immediate assault . . . a form of homesickness one gets
when one is still at
'home.'" This is a collection of poetry that reflects on the nature
of place, notions of
"home," and how they interact with the development of self. The
postmodern world is an
irreparably fragmented social space, leaving us with a blankness, a
white noise of
undefined territory. This is the creative space that my poetry
attempts to fill, exploring
notions of "place" in both the physical and the neurological sense.
Solastalgia grapples
with questions of self-contradictory spaces, and what happens when
the self enters these
spaces. These kinds of spaces become particularly poignant when
dealing with loss,
when dealing with the rejection of one's own self. How does one
move on when one's
selfhood has been rejected? My collection attempts to explore this
question while both
retaining and further developing a hopeful and powerful sense of
self. The poet Derek
Walcott said, "We are Crusoes: as poets…we survey islands,
and we feel they belong to
us-not in a bad, godlike manner, but with that sense of
exhilaration, of creative
possession. The other side is the despair of Crusoe, the despair of
always being alone.
That is our true condition as writers." With my collection of
poetry, I want to explore
the paradox of this "condition," how place can simultaneously
exhilarate and isolate, and
how through writing I try to define both myself and the places I
occupy.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
3. Preface
4. Here Is a Place
5. Out, Out
6. Creation Mythology
7. Zoetrope
8. Cave Drawings
9. Crack of Dawn
10. Playhouse
11. Carpal Tunnel
12. In the Right Places (With the Right People)
13. Weird Animal
14. Solastalgia
15. Afternoon
16. Intercoastal Clavicle
17. Ad Interim
18. Restitution Telescope
19. Flight Plans
20. Silver, Gold
21. Nuclide Deviation
22. Roadkill Corollary
23. Long Distance Aneurysm
24. Freeway
25. Aviary
26. Seasonal Offerings
27. Worst Subject
28. Strapping Myself to the Ceiling
29. Visiting
30. Spilt Milk
31. Ink Mouth
32. What Happens?
33. Science
34. Syncytium
35. Fallout
36. Spawn Song
37. It's All Happening
38. Fractional Bloom
39. Dual
40. Recipe
41. Scrapbook
42. Landing Site
43. After the Fall
44. Au Contrition
45. Second Beach
46. How to Be You
47. How to Live in a Head-Shaped Home
48. Post-Script
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