Sign-In
Cart
All Our (Un)Makings
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: Oct 23 2026
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
All Our (Un)Makings explores desire, language, and embodiment as the forces that both create and undo us. Interweaving the unfolding of erotic desire with ancient myth and scenes of language's evolution, these poems confront the longings-to see and be seen, to know and be known, to erase time and distance through our productions-that drive us toward love, art, and language, as well as the losses our bodies invoke and endure along the way.
The mythical figures of Orpheus and Eurydice and Penelope at her loom become lyrical means of reckoning with lost possibilities of erotic and parental love and relation. The ancient development of the alphabet becomes fodder for an extended exploration of the emotional costs imposed by the language that enables our artistic and erotic expressions. The roots of creation and meaning-making are found, again and again, entwined with their requisite losses.
Lyrical and experimental, erotic and philosophical, in forms ranging from sonnet to sestina to an invented hybrid form, these poems evoke antiquity and engage contemporary writers such as Anne Carson and torrin a. greathouse in wondering how writing might relate and respond to these longings and losses.
1 different editions
Also available
Also from
Beheler, Ali
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup, Celebrating Community, Friendship, and Resilience
Jackson, Major
Hardcover
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback