Wound from the mouth of a wound : poems / Torrin A. Greathouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greathouse, Torrin A., author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

66 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2020.

Summary:

"Wound from the Mouth of the Wound was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I

Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood

Metaphors for My Body on the Examination Table

Essay Fragment: Medical Model of Disability

When My Doctor First Tells Me I Am a Woman

On Examination/Dereliction

Hydrocele

Discovering My Gag Beflex, an Absence

There's No Word in English for the First Rain of Any Season

II

Burning Haibun

Ode to the First Time I Wore a Dress & My Mother Did Not Flinch

All I Ever Wanted to Be Was Nothing at All

That's So Lame

Essay Fragment: Moral Model of Disability

Portland, 1999

Heirloom

Against Yellow

III

In the Dream Where I Wake Up in My Physics Class Naked

They Leave Nothing for the Morning

Before the Not-Child's Not-Howl

The Queer Trans Girl Writes Her Estranged Mother a Letter About the Word Faggot & It Is the First Word to Burn

Family Portrait as Unfinshed Meal

Weeds

Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched

Aquagenic Urticaria

Ekphrasis on My Rapist's Wedding Dress

IV

Essay Fragment: Tragedy Model of Disability

An Ugly Poem

Phlebotomy, as Told by the Skin

When My Gender is First Named Disorder

Still Life with Bedsores

Essay Fragment: Preexisting Conditions

Ritual of Small Mercies

Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined

V

Litany of Ordinary Violences

On Using the Women's Bathroom

Metaphors for My Body, Postmortem

Essay Fragment: Economic Model of Disability

When My Brother Makes a Joke About Trans Panic

The Body of a Girl Lies on the Asphalt Like the Body of a Girl

POSTSCRIPT

Ars Poetica or Sonnet to Be Written Across My Chest & Read in a Mirror, Beginning with a Line from Kimiko Hahn.

Other Format:

Online version: Greathouse, Torrin A. Wound from the mouth of a wound.

ISBN:

9781571315274

1571315276

OCLC:

1162186499