Sign-In
Cart
Host
Paperback
Series: Wisconsin Poetry
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN10: 0299347141
ISBN13: 9780299347147
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780299347147
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
In raw, lyrical poems, Host explores parasitic relationships--between men and women, sons and mothers, and humans and the earth--and considers their consequences. How much control do we have over our lives? To what extent are we being controlled? And how much does it matter in the end? Revealing the unvarnished pain of mistreatment--whether inflicted maliciously or accidentally--Lisa Fay Coutley examines legacies of abuse in poems that explore how trauma parasitizes bodies, infecting the text, repeating in language and image the injuries the body has been subjected to.
Ask me why light can pour warm through a cold bay
window while water under sun is dark
as a closed door. A man's hand erases a girl's thigh. The trees start starving
themselves into everyone's favorite color.
Her darkest room digs itself below her throne. The body knows no
wrong move. The more love, the more.
--Excerpt from Oubliette
window while water under sun is dark
as a closed door. A man's hand erases a girl's thigh. The trees start starving
themselves into everyone's favorite color.
Her darkest room digs itself below her throne. The body knows no
wrong move. The more love, the more.
--Excerpt from Oubliette
Also from
Coutley, Lisa Fay
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Alighieri, Dante
Pitavy, Francois
Paperback
$33.00
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
$17.10
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
$19.94
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
$18.05
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
$17.06
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
$19.00