Risking it / Sylvia Byrne Pollack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollack, Sylvia Byrne, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : Red Mountain Press, [2021]

Summary:

Poetry. Disability Studies. Politics. In Sylvia Byrne Pollack's debut collection, RISKING IT, the titular poem asks "how to prepare for death." Pollack's science background and life experiences inform work that is ultimately joyful, with every pun intended. Her words sizzle even at the darkest subjects, whether pondering serum extracted from lab animals or her own cells gone amok. Through personae, the Deaf Woman and Letitia, she confronts hearing loss and mental illness with a researcher's precision and poet's playfulness. RISKING IT is an invitation "to rip open the cocoon and emerge."

Contents:

Risking It p. 7

How the Deaf Woman Hears p. 8

Deaf-ish p. 9

What the Deaf Woman Sees p. 10

Flagrance p. 11

Prayer Falling on Deaf Ears p. 12

Ever Hear Wolves? p. 14

Clamor p. 15

Chasm p. 16

Letitia's Lost Balloon p. 17

Meditation Instructions p. 18

The Hero's Journey p. 19

Spelunking p. 20

Vagrant Waltz p. 21

Alone, Almost p. 22

Tapas p. 23

Kiss p. 24

Mossy Limb p. 25

Making the Bed p. 26

Anniversary Song p. 27

Aperture p. 28

Gregory p. 30

From Silence p. 33

Not Vertigo p. 34

Island Time p. 36

Iron Springs Aubade p. 37

Letitia's Mixed State p. 38

Did You Fail Lithium or Did It Fail You? p. 39

Words Make Sense -It's in Their Union Contract p. 40

It's Not Only Don Juans p. 41

What the Deaf Woman Doesn't Want to Hear p. 42

Sometimes It's Better p. 44

Ghazal for Birdseed and Poetry p. 45

Soul Physics p. 46

On the Way to the Vancouver Art Museum p. 47

The Water-Moon Guanyin p. 48

Thicket p. 49

Girls Gone Wild p. 50

I'm Nearer the End of My Life than the Middle p. 51

Ars Poetica p. 52

Back p. 53

Would a T. rex or a Kraken Be a Better Pet? p. 54

Ripening p. 56

The Deaf Woman at the Turn of the Year p. 57

The Deaf Woman, Time, and Death p. 58

Road Trip p. 60

Tourists p. 62

Intervention: What'll It Be? p. 63

Facing Sunset p. 64

Honeyed Days p. 65

The Apricot Tree p. 66.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781952204098

1952204097

OCLC:

1247837008

Publisher Number:

99988921373