Toxicon and Arachne / Joyelle McSweeney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McSweeney, Joyelle, 1976- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

145 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Toxicon & Arachne

Place of Publication:

New York : Nightboat Books, [2020]

Contents:

Detonator Sonnet p. 3

I.

A R S Poetica p. 7

Oocyte p. 13

Axis p. 15

Drill Down In The Fly Room p. 17

Vagus Nerve p. 19

For Alejandra Negrete p. 23

I Toxic Sonnets: Crown For John Keats

"I Read About The Tubercle At Night" p. 29

"I'm a Threat to Life, a Violent Butter" p. 30

"Bad Host, You Clutch Your Guest. Green Seam" p. 31

"Death-Fletched, Alive, Immune to all Elixirs" p. 32

"Like Any Light Now Breaking in the Sky" p. 33

"With my Spittle, with my Cipher" p. 34

"To Lie Down in Still Waters of Erasure" p. 35

"A Flower, A Novice, and an Infiltrate" p. 36

"Contracted in my Attitude of Flight:" p. 37

"I Arrive at Darien with my Galactic Bag," p. 38

"As Waters Rise, a Bovine Microbe" p. 39

"Whatever Lives Bends Down Black OPS." p. 40

"Hung Up, Electrocuted by my Master" p. 41

"Here Life Convert's Its Currency: Protein Raincoat:" p. 42

III.

Vesica Piscis p. 45

Sleep Mask p. 51

Rat Mask p. 53

Hellebore p. 55

Sestina Ayotzinapa p. 59

Sestina Gratitude p. 61

Adriaen Het Kint p. 63

Crypt School p. 67

Leading Indicators p. 71

Sheep at Derrigimlagh p. 75

IV A Wormhole for Leslie Cheung

I'll Be Your p. 81

Days of Being p. 83

Make Up p. 85

Domesday p. 87

Random House p. 89

Warp Spasm p. 91

PT Cruiser p. 93

Bio Pic p. 95

Worm Music p. 103

Terminator Sonnet p. 105.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Contains:

McSweeney, Joyelle, 1976- Arachne.

ISBN:

9781643620183

1643620185

OCLC:

1119443966

Publisher Number:

99984106880