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The joy and terror are both in the swallowing / Christine Shan Shan Hou.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.O849 J69 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hou, Christine Shan Shan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 85 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : After Hours Editions, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Christine Shan Shan Hou's The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing offers a new mythology for our "smooth and violent era." Together, these poems map a constellation of desire, addressing "the female pleasure gap," the exhilaration of submission, and all the mundanity and peculiarities of planetary life. Hou asserts that "you cannot rely on algorithms to take you to your destination," instead arduously pushing past habits, expectations, instincts, and other "nameless forces," toward the singular spark of enlightenment. In these fable-like poems, readers traverse landscapes both foreign and familiar. The result is a peregrination towards an afterlife "opaque & without backstory," where tame animals return to the wild and nature forgives us for our failures"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Amanuensis
- Peregrination
- Blue Desert
- No Rain No Rain
- New Age Expedition
- THE LOST HAIKUS
- Sky
- Cleanse
- Glazed Apparatus
- To Do
- Bath
- Pond
- Soft Pornography
- Awakening Yourself
- Bayou
- The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing
- Sunday Afternoon
- Fable
- Like it Never Happened
- Bridal Shower
- Some Facts About Myself
- New Town
- A Little Bit of Hurt
- Seven Wonders
- Love Story
- On Fridays They Go Dancing
- Western Thought
- Pelvis
- Rural Pleasures
- Leftovers
- Safe
- Pause
- Deviation
- Afterlife
- Not a New Theory of Evolution
- Piece of Evidence
- Distant Relative
- The Danger Seekers
- Never Cursed
- Senna Loves Her Car Seat More Than She Loves the Trees
- Sad
- Afterhours
- View
- Baby Geometry
- Premonition
- Harvest
- Visitor Experience
- Kind of Blue
- Playground
- Trust Exercise
- Heaven.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781733408233
- 1733408231
- OCLC:
- 1247827121
- Publisher Number:
- 99989053938
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