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How to avoid speaking / Jaimee Hills.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.I55 H6 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hills, Jaimee, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Authors, American--Wisconsin.
- Authors, American.
- Wisconsin.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hills, Jaimee (autograph) (inscription) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 92 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chipping Norton, Oxon ; Baltimore, MD : The Waywiser Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- How to Avoid Speaking is the latest winner of the prestigious Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and was selected from almost 500 submissions by the English poet, editor, critic and anthologist, Anthony Thwaite. The collection is an exploration of speech, of sound and strange noises, which begins with the first confrontation with language and ends with a voice beyond the dead. It is a space where Brad Pitt becomes a 16th century anatomical drawing, where a Hemingway story melts under the threat of global warming, where Derrida agonizes over eating a Dorito. Through verse forms both innovative and traditional, Jaimee Hills's debut collection explores a philosophy of the awkward, and the memento mori, in an investigation of what it means to own a body and speak through it. -- Website.
- Contents:
- I. Synaethesia
- Chlamydia
- Lullaby
- Discerning sound
- Birds
- Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks
- True knot
- Lavender mist
- Sprung
- Somber
- Fallen
- Wonder
- Radiance
- The oyster
- How to avoid speaking
- II. On S
- Lo lee ta
- Andy Warhol's wig
- On x-rays
- On M
- Wonder Woman's resumé
- Frida Kahlo's eyebrows
- On J
- On Q-tips
- On D
- On F
- On Z
- III. Derrida eats a Dorito
- Nothing rhymes with gitmo
- Keys to the kingdom
- Albanian virgin
- The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting
- Windmills
- Echo and Narcissus
- Lust
- Couple on display
- On beauty
- 30-second spot
- Poet as anticapitalist
- IV. Tonight the character of death will be played by Brad Pitt
- The bar
- Aubade of Resusci-Annie
- Doll coffins
- The fascist poem
- Ode to fear
- Battle of the cricket
- Textbook smile
- Graven image
- Noli me tangere
- Eurydice
- My sexist thesaurus
- Emaciated muse
- Harpy
- Still life.
- Notes:
- A collection of poems.
- Foreword by Anthony Thwaite.
- Winner of the tenth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, (2014).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.
- RBC copy with ms. author's annotations throughout and author's inscription ("Dear reader. Please enjoy) on title page.
- ISBN:
- 1904130844
- 9781904130840
- OCLC:
- 920869887
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