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Irredenta
By Oscar Oswald
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A sequence of poems that interrogates American civics and citizenry from its foundation in the pastoral tradition.
In Irredenta, Oscar Oswald raises the prospect of pastoral opposition to state power, elaborating and investigating the genre through ethical and spiritual inquiry. As a citizen is a stranger to itself, so too does Oswald’s pastoral speaker define the tensions between identity and nationality inherent in a civic body as they are traversed across the American political geography: land, water, and country, from the Mojave to Wisconsin.
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Irredenta - Oscar Oswald
THE YOUNG HERDSMAN
Rosemary my atlas, each thread inaudible
what choice to flip the page available
and see behind the mountain how it’s done —
first open space make inroads makeshift towns
that coins the land, arrests construction off the highway
whereby each coast is affluent beyond its means
whose forest roads I measure clear I cut back every mile
takes the saddle summer grass and Saddle Mountain
absent trees the distance of one year since harvest
nothing that my source cannot make due without
within my love’s domain, my place the furthest possible
my paper gasoline dry depths of pavement
present tense or bristlecone, and in more time
each summer once the heat is broken by the pine
spare parts become common, and to include them
commonplace
To phone my memo driftwood, know mailbox
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