Autobiography of a wound / Brynne Rebele-Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rebele-Henry, Brynne, 1999- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vi, 73 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

Contents:

Scarab with device of kneeling fertility figure before obelisk p. 3

Portrait of a female figure with puncture marks & frayed rope p. 4

Self-portrait as a woman with a bullet wound p. 6

Self-portrait as a girl made out of stone p. 7

Self-portrait as a broken Venus statuette p. 8

Definition of Girl p. 11

Definition of a Fist p. 12

Definition of Basalt p. 13

Definition of Bleeding p. 14

Definition of a Broken Wrist p. 15

Aubadefor a dying girl p. 16

Aubade for a wound p. 21

Aubadefor a marble child p. 22

Self-portrait with needles & a broken mouth p. 23

Self-portrait as a wound p. 24

Female fertility figure, bone, carved, B.C. p. 27

Portrait as yourself p. 29

Portrait as a menstruating figure p. 30

Portrait as a dying man p. 31

Portrait as a bleeding woman p. 32

Self-portrait as the boys who died & the girls who were turned to bones p. 33

Picture off, myself & a lake town p. 34

Picture of three girls, a white house & F p. 35

Picture of the lost children & the first menstruation p. 36

Self-portrait as the lake in which they were drowned p. 37

Self-portrait as a girl without a body p. 38

Self-portrait as a fertility figure p. 39

Self-portrait as a drowning city p. 40

Figure of Isis/Aphrodite p. 41

Self-portrait as split-open lips, a gun & a cornfield at night p. 42

Self-portrait as a wound, a bird skull & a stone p. 45

The brief life of a marble woman p. 46

The brief life of a wound p. 47

The brief life of a girl p. 48

Tlie brief life of a stone figure p. 49

The death of S, Aphrodite & the kneeling basilisk p. 50

The carving of S/Aphrodite & F p. 51

Marble female figure p. 52

The pathos of fertility, 1921, Germany p. 53

Standing female figure wearing a strap & a necklace p. 54

Figure of fertility goddess (2700 B.C.) p. 55

Figure of fertility goddess (2000 B.C.) p. 56

Plaque with nude female in a shrine niche p. 57

Terracotta statuette of a nude woman p. 58

Head of a woman, 220 B.C. p. 59

Kneeling female deity p. 61

The history of bones p. 62

The history of violence p. 63

Self-biography as a hole p. 64

Self-biography as a Venus p. 65

Self-biography as a false saint p. 66

Self-biography as a pregnant woman p. 67

Self-biography as a girl with no mouth p. 68

Autobiography of a Venus figure p. 69

Autobiography of something fertile p. 70

Autobiography of basalt & broken stones p. 71

Autobiography of a wound p. 72.

Notes:

Poems.

Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, 2017.

ISBN:

9780822965671

0822965674

OCLC:

1032025395