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Embouchure: Poems

Embouchure: Poems

Phillips, Emilia

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Series: Akron Poetry

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1629222089
ISBN13: 9781629222080
Publisher: Univ Of Akron Pr
Published: Mar 16 2021
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

★This poignant and intimate account of discovery hums with pitch-perfect humor and triumphs that hit hard. Publishers Weekly, starred review

An embouchure is the way in which a wind musician applies their mouth to an instrument's mouthpiece, and Embouchure, Emilia Phillips's fourth poetry collection, sets its mouth, ready to play. Trumpeting a picaresque coming out story, the poems are at turns self-deprecatory and revelatory, exploring sexual fluidity and non-monosexuality. From the speaker's adolescent crushes to her closeted 20s to her eventual acceptance of queerness, her disarming joy--even at her own mistakes--is cut with challenges to toxic masculinity and reckonings with anticipatory anxiety. The tomboy the speaker once was is transfigured into a presexual soft butch / Medusa with a beautiful, beautiful / body that didn't know yet // how to contain itself. Elsewhere, the speaker evades a Dickinsonian personification of Death, who seems more like an inescapable ex-boyfriend than a welcome bridegroom. Phillips's mock-confessionalism is as brassy as it is vulnerable.

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