Landscape with sex and violence
Subtitle: poems
By: by Lynn Melnick
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: YesYes Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781936919550
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "The poems in [this collection] explore what it means to exist within a rape culture so entrenched that it can't be separated from the physical landscapes in which it enacts itself. Lyrically complex and startling - yet forthright and unflinching - these poems address rape, abortion, sex work, and other subjects frequently omitted from male-dominated literary traditions, without forsaking the pleasures of being embodied, or the value of personal freedom, of moonlight, and of hope. Throughout, the topography and mythology of California, as well as the uses and failures of language itself, are players in what it means to be a woman, a sexual being, and a trauma survivor in contemporary America."--Provided by publisher.