What is otherwise infinite : poems / Bianca Stone.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stone, Bianca, author.

Contributor:

• Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

• Poetry.

Physical Description:

117 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2022.

Summary:

"Written in four sections with incisive and vivid lyrical language, Bianca Stone's What is Otherwise Infinite considers how we find our place in the world through themes of philosophy, religion, environment, myth, and psychology. "I deal only in the hardest pain-revivers, symbols / and tongues," writes Stone. "I want to tell you only / in the intimacy of our discomfort." Populated by archangels, limping in paradise; by allergies of the soul; the revelation and danger of motherhood; psychic wounds; and dirty, dirty chocolate layer cake, What is Otherwise Infinite deftly examines our inherent and inherited ideas of how to live, and the experience of the self-which on one hand is intensely personal, and on the other, universal"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: MONAD
• Marcus Aurelius
• Routine
• Does Life Exist Independent of Its Form?
• Nature
• Apocrypha
• God Searches for God
• The Human Good
• The Legend of the One-Headed Woman
• The Malady
• Drunk during Creation
• I'll Tell You
• Alcohol
• After Getting Advice to Look out the Window & Say "Thank You"
• The Way Things Were Until Now
• Illuminations
• DYAD
• Artichokes
• Autobiography
• The Body
• The Way Mirrors Happen
• Fasting
• Psychodynamic Motivational Speech
• Yield
• Rime of the Ancient Mariners
• O Wedding Guest!
• Dear Sir or Madam
• Set Designer
• Dark Mad Stallion
• TRIAD
• Tragic Nature
• Wolves
• You Could Spend Every Night with the Television
• Beatrices
• Quantum Theorists in 1926
• Marriage
• (Not) the Last Television Poem
• The Wealth
• Mary Magdalene
• The Request of the Doe
• TETRAD
• Other Wound
• Pain as White Paint
• The Infant's Eyes
• Mockingbird
• Niente amo
• The Ostensible Psychic Wound
• Twins
• Quantum Mechanics Reveals the Unique Behaviors of Subatomic Particles That Make Up All Matter
• During the Nap
• A Queen's Ransom
• Yellow Balloon
• Cutting Odette's Fingernails
• In Absence
• This Unknowing
• A Suckling Pig's Prayer.

Notes:

"Advance reader's coopy"--Cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781951142971
• 1951142977

OCLC:

1260132012

Online:

The Charles Wendell David Library Fund Home Page