The end of pink : poems / by Kathryn Nuernberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nuernberger, Kathryn, author.

Series:

American poets continuum series ; v. 157.

American poets continuum series ; no. 157

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Peoms.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

92 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2016.

Summary:

"Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters-Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin-all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and-of course-joy. Finding myself in a mesmeric orientation, before me appeared Benjamin Franklin, who magnetized his French paramours at dinner parties as an amusing diversion from his most serious studies of electricity and the ethereal fire. I like thinking about how he would have stood on tiptoe to kiss their buzzing lips and everyone would gasp and clap for the blue spark between them. I believe in an honest and forthright manner, a democracy of plain speech, so I have to find a way to explain I don't care to have sex anymore. Kathryn Nuernberger has lived in various corners of Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, and Montana. Her first book, Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011), was a love letter to backwoods junk collectors and all of the abandoned cabins in the foothills to the Ozark Mountains. An unapologetic dilettante, she has received research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research aspects of the history of science and medicine. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, teaches at the University of Central Missouri, and serves as the director of Pleiades Press"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Zoontological Sublime 16

About Derrick, If You're into That 20

Bat Boy Washed Up Onshore 23

Benjamin Harding to Prospective Investors on the Refining Effects of Static Electricity and Volcanic Action in the Ultimate Production of Both Atomic (or Molecular) and FREE Pure Metallic Gold (1838) 25

Testimonial (1888) 27

P. T. Barnum's Fiji Mermaid Exhibition as I Was Not the Girl I Think I Was 29

I Concede the Point, I Concede the Point, I Concede the Point 31

Wonders and Mysteries of Animal Magnetism Displayed (1791) as What I Want Is 33

Rituals of the Bacabs as the Strange Case of Kate Abbott 35

Birds of Ohio 37

Reading Drops of Water: Showing the Mysteries of the Visible World (1873) as Love Poem 38

The Book of Knowledge, the Experienced Farrier, &c. (1793) as The Best of All Possible Worlds 40

The End of Pink 42

The Saint Girl's Sweetest Tortures 47

The Saint Girl Died and Went to Heaven and That Was One Problem After Another 48

Ways in Which the Saint Girl Is and Is Not Me; Also, So What If She Is and What If She Isn't 49

The Saint Girl Discovers an Orgasmitron 50

The Saint Girt Tries to Do the Right Thing 51

The Saint Girl's Isochronal Error 52

The Saint Girl Takes in Strays 53

The Saint Girl Opens the Window and Closes It as She Pleases 54

The Nimbuses of Devils 55

Or Perhaps Not 59

My First Peacock 60

Property Lines 61

When Cortez Came 63

My Peacock Among the Phantasmagoria 64

Whatever You Need 67

Little Brown Jug, Look on the Bright Side 69

Toad 71

My Peacock's Daguerreotype 73

Peter, Raised by Wolves (1726) 75

René Descartes and the Clockwork Girl 78

Peacock and Sister 81

Little Lesson on How to Be 82.

Other Format:

Online version: Nuernberger, Kathryn, author. End of pink.

ISBN:

9781942683148

1942683146

OCLC:

938997165