The Möbius strip club of grief / by Bianca Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Bianca, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purgatory--Poetry.

Purgatory.

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Families--Poetry.

Families.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

104 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon ; Brooklyn, New York : Tin House Books, 2018.

Summary:

The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay-dearly, with both money and conscience-to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: “$20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own,” one ghost says. “I'll tell you you were good to me.” Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines a feminist Limbo where women run the show and create a space to navigate the difficulties endured in life. With a nod to her grandmother Ruth Stone's poem “The Mobius Strip of Grief,” Stone creates a labyrinthine underworld as a way to confront and investigate complicated family relationships in the hopes of breaking the never-ending cycle of grief. --Publisher

Contents:

I

Introduction 5

Medieval 6

Last Words 7

Lap Dance 9

A Brief Topography of the MSCOG 10

The Murder 14

Client 16

Mama-san 17

Hunter 18

All the Single Mothers 20

Honeybee 21

Emily Dickinson 23

Math 24

I Am Unfaithful to You with My Genius 26

II

Making Applesauce with My Dead Grandmother 35

How Not 36

Interior Design 37

Flight 40

The Reading 42

Self-Destruction Sequence 43

Stenographer 45

Elegy with a Swear Word 46

Cliff Elegy 47

The Fates 48

Dear Sister 50

The Gang Elegy 53

Blue Jays 54

Ones Who Got Away with It 73

Letter to a Letter to the Editors 75

The Green Word 80

Migration 83

Retreating Knights and Riderless Horses, or Poem with Another Poem Halfway Through It 85

The Fall 87

The Woman Downstairs 88

The Walking Dead 89

The Lit Club Slaughter 90

In the Champagne Room with Grandma 92

Elegy with Clothes 94

I'll Be Happy 95

Historic Flaws 96

The Dark Ages, Revisited 97.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 103-104).

ISBN:

9781941040850

1941040853

OCLC:

990288651

Publisher Number:

99975608860