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Artists & Writers
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Mr. Guy Guthridge
Program Manager
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W-220-P
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Artist/Writer Program
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Station:
Palmer Station
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RPSC POC:
Elaine Hood
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Research Site(s):
Palmer Station
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Dates in Antarctica:
Mid November to late December
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Time, place, and imagination: Images and poems from Antarctica
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Jude Nutter
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Deploying Team Members:
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Judith E. Nutter
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Research Objectives:
Jude Nutter will be gathering material for a collection of poems and pastels
called Time,
Place, and Imagination. This will not be a collection of “illustrated”
poems: The pastels will not be portraits of landscape, but visions of landscape,
which, in turn, means that they will reflect something of the artist’s emotional
and spiritual orientation. Ms. Nutter anticipates producing a series of poems
written in response to the antarctic landscape as well as to the history of
Antarctica and the internal landscapes of those who are drawn to such an environment.
As
the writer Francis Spufford points out, there is an “uncharted” polar history;
an “intangible history of assumptions, responses to landscape, cultural fascinations,
aesthetic attraction to cold regions.” This interplay between the physical landscape
and the internal landscape will be the focus of the collection.
A native of North Yorkshire, England, Jude Nutter came to the U.S. in the
late 1980s and spent ten years homesteading on Wrangell Island in Southeast
Alaska.
Her poems have been widely published and received several national and international
awards, grants, and honors. Pictures of the Afterlife, her first collection,
was published by Salmon Poetry, Ireland, in 2002. Her second collection, The
Curator of Silence, is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press
as part of its Ernest Sandeen Prize Series. She is currently at work on a collection
of poems about World War I and World War II entitled I Wish I Had a Heart
Like Yours, Walt Whitman.
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