This is your real name / Elizabeth Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Elizabeth, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 pages)

Place of Publication:

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, [2020]

Summary:

In lieu of flowers, bring weeds. Elizabeth Morton's poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world-the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, 'the black heat at the centre of things.' The poems in Morton's second collection are charged with a visceral energy. This is poetry as incantation: an intense, larger-than-life, tactile experience. Underneath the surface of the contemporary world of Poke´mon, The Cosby Show, and hospital cubicles, the reader is drawn into a dreamscape of creeks and bogs, a fiery meadow, and the guts of the sea. A blindman circles a Minotaur; a black horse rides through the pages. As the reader finds handholds within Morton's poems, they may trace a dislocation between the voices here and the worlds into which they're thrown -a strangely askew New Zealand, a mythological America, in liminal spaces where identity and meaning become blurred and uncertain. Jammed full of want, need, despair, love, and politics, these are poems of archaeology and identity-where will we dig for our selves? By what names are we called? By whom are we known? This is darkly funny, unsettling writing that strips all the meat from the bones, 'always writing the same story.'

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Half Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Untouch

After

Inside-out

On hold

Gap

You can't, always

Aubade with hold music

The chair

Hay, we're on fire!

lucid

i have one or two regrets &amp

Sometimes I dream America

Somebody else's shoes

Lines

Maze

Where we go

Stranding

An inventory of potions in tanka

Ethics for a millennial homebody

OK

mole

How I hate Pokémon but I can show restraint and just talk about my adolescence

Peanuts

Counterstrike

The eating of sorrow

Husk

fever

Away we go

Distance

Sissy as an elephant

23andMe

Postcard from your obese lover

Up here

Stones

Sonnet for a towerblock

Since

Mydriatic

Tropes

Rabbit

Export

Fractures

In the next life

Boomerang

I shed kilos reading Cioran in the mall

Foreign attraction

Taxing the ghost

mama scarecrow

Owling

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781988592473

198859247X

9781988592459

1988592453