Her mouth as souvenir
By: Heather June Gibbons ; with a foreword by Jericho Brown
Contributors: Brown, Jericho, writer of foreword
Series: Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry; Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781607816300
Description: "In a startling voice propelled by desire and desperation on the verge of laughter, these poems leap from the mundane to the sublime, from begging to bravado, from despair to reverie, revealing the power that comes from hanging on by a thread. Poet Heather June Gibbons conjures belief in the absence of faith, loneliness in the digital age, beauty in the face of absurdity; all through the cataract of her sunglasses' cracked lens. In this debut collection, we are shown a world so turbulent, anxious, and beautiful, we know it must be ours. Under pressure, these poems sing"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Smell the moxie; title: Exploded view; title: Poppy; title: Folk song; title: Event; title: My people; title: The idea of; title: Dusting; title: Assistant; title: Muse the drudge; title: Lives of the prophets; title: In sotto voce; title: Winds you hear before you feel; title: Self-portrait as tongue; title: Crossing; title: Sore song; title: Sore song; title: An evening of yes music; title: Origami; title: Sore song; title: So far gone; title: Sore song; title: Longest song; title: Sore song; title: Memory is a bull market; title: Let's pretend; title: Grimace; title: Midsummer singalong; title: Anthem; title: Sore song; title: Passengers; title: Do not leave this box; title: Ostinato; title: I-beam; title: Elegy; title: Nature; title: Vantage; title: Waymark; title: Fill this box with flames; title: Bobby reads Chekhov; title: The brain may disassemble itself in sleep; title: Pointillist; title: Desire lines; title: The green rose up; title: Self-portrait as elegy.