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Book Synopsis
This poetry collection creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Burying Seeds
  • Head on Ice #5
  • Blood of the Air
  • She Said
  • Poem After Betye Saar’s “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima”
  • Found Poem #4
  • The Beekeeper’s Husband
  • Found Poem #3
  • Detail from Poem After Betye Saar’s “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima”
  • Nasty Woman
  • Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
  • Notes

Blood of the Air Poems Drinking Gourd Chapbook

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/03/2020
      ISBN13: 9780810141711, 978-0810141711
      ISBN10: 081014171X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This poetry collection creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Burying Seeds
      • Head on Ice #5
      • Blood of the Air
      • She Said
      • Poem After Betye Saar’s “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima”
      • Found Poem #4
      • The Beekeeper’s Husband
      • Found Poem #3
      • Detail from Poem After Betye Saar’s “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima”
      • Nasty Woman
      • Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
      • Notes

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