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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Alchemy of My Mortal Form

The Alchemy of My Mortal Form

Longhorn, Sandy

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 098552927X
ISBN13: 9780985529277
Publisher: Trio House Press
Published: Jan 1 2015
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

In The Alchemy of My Mortal Form, poet Sandy Longhorn, winner of the 2014 Louise Bogan award, reveals a landscape of the body-its illness, pain, and medical treatment. Her book, a meditation on veins, arms, wolves, and the soul has a cohesive, chronological order that reads more like a story than a collection. Longhorn's lush colloquial baroque unexpectedly rearranges the language of a fragile, fevered body-handled, medicated, and managed by others- with imagery of a cursive spine, a lucid secret, and pairings like symptoms/solstice. Divided into sections of General Orders, My Mortal Form, and Glossary, it is an epistolary tale addressed to an unknown, Dear Madame from the perspective of a woman with an undefined illness, in an unspecific place, who has hoarded her scars and keeps accurate account of rashes, wounds & spells of amnesia. Longhorn's world-building flourishes with interiority and strangeness. From sickling to refugee, the narrator grapples with predictions, traces the outline of her escape, and forgives while raw metaphors of a body that is a salvaged wreck pulse with the strength of resilience

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