Veil and burn : poems / by Laurie Clements Lambeth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambeth, Laurie Clements, 1968-

Series:

National poetry series.

Illinois poetry series

The national poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Psychology--Poetry.

People with disabilities.

Adjustment (Psychology)--Poetry.

Adjustment (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.

Contents:

""front cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Coming Down""; ""Symptoms""; ""The Spaces Between""; ""[Mesh Fragment]""; ""In a Field Distractions Rise""; ""[Fragment Behind the Eyelid]""; ""Riches""; ""[Practice Fragment]""; ""Seizure, or Seduction of Persephone""; ""[Needle Fragment]""; ""Large Loop Excision of the Temporal Zone""; ""[Halo Fragment]""; ""Onion""; ""Cutting Distance""; ""[Frame Fragment]""; ""After Eight Years""; ""In Japan, Woman Can Doze with Man Pillow""; ""Work""; ""[Gingham Fragment]""; ""Into Wind""; ""Ode to the Upper Lip""

""Case History: Frankenstein's Lesions""""Alfred Hitchcock Meets the Blob""; ""[Gauze Fragment]""; ""After Cancer: Dog on Her Side, Post-Amputation""; ""Inheritance""; ""Hypoethesia""; ""On My Husband's Birthday I Read Obituaries""; ""Reluctant Pegasus""; ""1. Saddle""; ""2. Membrane""; ""3. At the Wild Horse Sanctuary""; ""4. In Praise of Proud Flesh""; ""5. Reluctant Pegasus""; ""6. [Preserved Fragment]""; ""7. Pegasus, a Ghost""; ""8. To the Gray I Can No Longer Ride""; ""9. What Holds""; ""10. Dressage, or the Attmept at Training the Course of Illness""; ""[Mosaic Fragment""

""Wrong Turn Near Pecos""""[Chipped Fragment]""; ""Retrobulbar""; ""[Fragment Dissected and Sewn]""; ""The Merle""; ""Undressing the Tree""; ""The Shaking""; ""Heron""; ""Eating the Night""; ""Nicholas Ray Directs a Poem""; ""[Brain Fragment (as Seen on a Monitor)]""; ""Back Lot Field Notes""; ""Washing Up""; ""Notes""; ""back cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [81]).

ISBN:

9786613895691

9781283583244

1283583240

9780252091681

025209168X

OCLC:

811409798