The gutter spread guide to prayer / Eric Tran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tran, Eric, 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:

62 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : Autumn House Press, [2020]

Contents:

I

Starting with a Line p. 3 / Joyce Byers

Lectio Divina: Emma Frost p. 5

Pulse p. 6

Days after Orlando I Read the X-Men p. 7

A Favor p. 8

Portrait in Pleather Tee p. 9

Eloisa- p. 11

Explaining Again Why I Can't Give Blood p. 12

My Mother Asks How I Was Gay before Sleeping with a Man p. 13

Compromise p. 14

I Tell My Mother about My Depression p. 15

Ode to My Morning Meds p. 16

Your Doppelgánger p. 17

Lectio Divina: Hektor the Assassin p. 18

II

Revisions p. 21

Regrets, in the Style of Clue p. 22

Portraits of the Days' Griefs p. 23

Declaration with Immigrants' Child Eating Habits p. 24

Treatise on Whether to Write the Mango p. 26

I Wrote a Poem with Faggot p. 28

I Learned D&D When 45 Was Elected p. 29

Starting with a Line from a Minor Character in Fury Road p. 30

Lectio Divina: Vision p. 31

Amadeus Cho, Totally Awesome Hulk p. 32

How to Pray p. 33

Hermione Granger and the Reciprocal Erasure p. 34

Lectio Divina: Big Barda and Mister Miracle p. 36

III

Eclipse, One Month Before p. 41

If You Had Asked What a Poem Meant p. 42

Lectio Divina: Black Bolt #6 p. 44

Portrait as Captain America Holding a Helicopter with a Bicep Curl p. 45

When Ail That's Left Is Metaphor p. 46

Aubade after Chemo p. 47

Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.): Mixed Material: Felix Gonzalez-Torres: 1991 p. 48

Self-Portrait as the Fire p. 50

Alternatives to Saying It p. 52

Dear _____ p. 53

Portrait as Orpheus, Ten Years Old p. 54

He Who Helps Drag Queens Descend the Stairs p. 57

Garden p. 58.

Notes:

Winner of the 2019 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

1938769511

9781938769511

OCLC:

1110451443

Publisher Number:

99984106347