Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings by Eric Gansworth

Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings

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Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings

Syracuse University Press

Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function: Poems and Paintings

by Eric Gansworth

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 Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heart beat, the poems in this stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion. Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring, physically, historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee tribe, Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of a marginalized culture struggling to maintain tradition within a much larger dominant culture. With equal measures of humor, wisdom, poignancy, and beauty, Gansworth's poems mine the infinite varieties of individual and collective loss and recovery. Fourteen paintings punctuate his poetry, creating an active dialogue between word and image steeped in the tradition of the mythic Haudenosaunee world. A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function is the most recent addition to Gansworth's remarkable body of work chronicling the lives of upstate New York's Indian communities.
Book Details
Publisher:
Syracuse University Press
ISBN:
9780815609001
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
142
Authors:
Eric Gansworth
Published Date:
2008-02-25
Language:
English
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About Eric Gansworth

Raised at the Tuscarora Nation, Eric Gansworth is a writer and visual artist. He is a professor at Canisius University in Buffalo, New York, where he holds the Lowery Writer-in-Residence post. He earned a BA and an MA at State University College at Buffalo. His poetry collections are Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon, Breathing the Monster Alive and A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function, and he has written novels and plays besides. Apple (Skin to the Core), which he calls a young adult memoir-in-verse with images, was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award in young people's literature and named a Printz Honor Book in 2021.

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