The last unkillable thing / poems by Emily Pittinos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pittinos, Emily, author.

Series:

Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2021]

Summary:

""What will be possible / when I'm no longer sorry?" asks the speaker of THE LAST UNKILLABLE THING after the sudden death of a parent. "What do lost daughters burst into?" In this debut collection by Emily Pittinos, the speaker is tasked with relearning the ways of loneliness, family, sex, and wilderness as a person who feels thoroughly and abruptly without. Shaped by both concision and unfolding sequences, THE LAST UNKILLABLE THING is a journey across landscapes of mourning where "in [the] periphery, every shadow / is a new dead thing." The light of these poems takes on the tint of grief, and through that light the speaker reexamines what remains: her changed self, her desire, the midwestern flora, the unyielding snow. Interior and exterior ecologies blur until loss becomes a place of its own, and the only inevitability. "Doesn't it hurt," Pittinos writes, "to be human. I'm so human, I could die.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Assuming, once again, it's done with p. 1

*

Usual Ghosts p. 5

After p. 6

The Latest Tornado p. 12

Wanting a Child p. 13

Edge of Ruin p. 14

**

With Key in the Door p. 17

After p. 18

I Grow Less Visible p. 22

It Is Not Animal to Forgive p. 24

Trembling on the Skin of a Droplet p. 26

All in Dissolve p. 27

I Remember How Cold I Will Be p. 28

In Wolfs Clothing p. 30

Loss Becomes Me p. 31

The Days Shorter, and Yet p. 34

***

She Must Have a Bit of Green to Look At p. 37

****

Hot Spring: p. 49

After p. 50

Study of a Lone Beast p. 51

Subnivean (or Holding Back the Year) p. 52

I Would Let Go, If Only It Came Naturally p. 63

Torpor, Interrupted p. 64.

Other Format:

Online version: Pittinos, Emily, The last unkillable thing

ISBN:

9781609387648

1609387643

OCLC:

1193560035