Body count / Kyla Jamieson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jamieson, Kyla, 1990- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

96 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, BC, Canada : Nightwood Editions, 2020.

Summary:

"Body Count focuses on Jamieson's experience with a concussion and post-concussion syndrome and deals with the embodied costs of misogyny, the hostilities and precarities of life under neoliberal global capitalism, connection amidst the proliferation of persuasive technologies, and the dizzying escapism of romance and pleasure--before the roughly chronological text is interrupted by a brain injury and its attendant symptoms: migraines, light and sound sensitivity, proprioceptive and ocular dysfunction, cognitive deficits, memory impairment, anxiety, depression, irritability, weakness and fatigue. Jamieson's poems use plain language to journey through dreamscapes and pain states in search of new understandings my self and worth. Body Count is about the toll illness takes, but it is also an insistence that the body, and somatic ways of knowing, count. This is the first poetry collection by a Canadian writer to illuminate the experience of a concussion and PCS, which is a deceptively simple medical diagnosis used to describe a constellation of symptoms requiring a multitude of treatments, therapies, and exercises."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: THE PHYSICS OF ATMOSPHERIC MISOGYNY

Major Recurring Role

Dear Kayla

Worship

F for Effort

Five Parts Rape Poem One Part Self-Care

Outspoken Woman Circa 2016

Ponytail Wealth Feedback Mechanism

Alive Under a Neoliberal Sky

One Surprising Way Less Can Be More

Canadian Woman in Literature

Body Count

Fun Fact

Trump Semiotics

Oh Look Another Man

VICTIMS OF CAPTOLOGY

You Don't Need Me

My Summer Goal Was to Drink More Slurpees & I Failed

Review

Don't Leave Now It's Just Beginning

Would You Like to Join Our Mailing List?

The Bookstores in nyc Are Great Would Be a Weird Thing to Say Out Loud

Pink Pink Skin

I Have This Really Hot Sexual Fantasy

For Milk & Space

Reject Upgrade

Victims of Captology

I Am So Excited About the Future Since My Only Limits Are Imagined

IN EXILE I DRAW THE TOWER CARD

Excepting My Irifirmities

The Ultimate Bros Are Practising Shirtless in the Park Near My Apartment So It Must Be Spring

Kind of Animal

I Wish My Invisible Illness Made Me Invisible to the Male Gaze

Sex Wave Moon Nest

Blue Interlude

Dear Jesse

Catch 22

September

In Exile I Draw the Tower Card

My Life Is an Inaccessible Event

Smoothies Are More Wonderful than Human Beings

Necessary Light

FUTURE BODY SELF-PORTRAIT

Self-image So Far

Good Morning, I'm Crying

I'm Really Feeling

Dear Frank

Vernal Equinox

Healing

WBU?

Dearlibby

I'm Not Better I'm Just Less Dead

Size Matters

Gemini June

Future Body Self-Portrait

I Need a Poem.

Notes:

Poems.

Other Format:

Online version: Jamieson, Kyla, 1990- Body count.

ISBN:

9780889713703

0889713707

OCLC:

1121630131

Publisher Number:

99987424916