Description
Book SynopsisThe third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards,
Quiet Armor examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy.
Trade ReviewThe poems in
Quiet Armor explore the shadows and nuances of one woman teetering between conventional, gendered expectations and witch/martyr/saint/goddess. These poems unfold with improvisational energy, creating an ongoing sense of a life lived, of time passing, of wisdom accrued through experience. It is difficult to write of life’s reparations, especially where love is concerned, without sentimentality—here, Edwards succeeds, and how: when we reach the end of the last poem, we feel we know the collection’s speaker intimately, and we feel—some of us, anyway—known." - Diane Suess, author of
frank: sonnetsTable of Contents
- Parthenogenesis
- Window Shopping
- Easy as Pie
- Ladylike
- Nobody Is Lost
- What Is Left to Say About the Body
- Composed
- Portrait of My Mother, Age 56
- Spell for Undoing a Life Sentence
- Essay on Guns
- Verity
- Clytemnestra, Daughter of Leda, Beholds a Swan
- Dream without Men
- Red Spell
- Mouthy
- Self-Portrait as Medusa
- Calling Her Names
- Elegy for Lavinia
- Five Days Before the Election
- Rumor Has It
- Drunk Bitch Dreams of a Luminous Stream
- Babylove
- Harm’s Way
- Drunk Bitch Wants to Fuck Like a Man
- After the Election I Woke Up
- What I Left
- Learning to Leave a Bad Thing Alone
- Drunk Bitch Tries Her Hand at Recovery
- Medusa with the Head of Harvey Weinstein
- The Astonishing
- A Few More Lines on Lavinia
- Some Things We Carried
- Medusa as Shield
- Dread Myth
- Some Lines in which I Want to Go On
- Aubade with the Longest Eyelashes
- On Progeny
- Some Threads from a Depression
- Ode to Chill Pills
- Self-Portrait as Too Much
- On Want
- All the Heavens Were a Bell
- Another Poem About Pain
- Dear Extraterrestrials
- Ode to Joy
- Entreaty
- Epithalamion
- Tapping Therapy
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Thank You
