Outskirts : poems / Heathen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heathen, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Akron series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

War poetry.

Violence--Poetry.

Violence.

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)--Poetry.

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

63 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2022.

Summary:

"In Outskirts, Heathen continues the life-long praxis to realize Rukeyser's vision of poetry as a harnessing of human consciousness to change the world. From the lived personal experiences of the author embedded in places of war and genocide, the trauma of violence and rape known firsthand both within and outside of the delineation of conflict zones, they write in concert with fellow outcasts in communal resistance to nationalist and authoritarian impulses both in history and now on the rise around the world and in the United States. With references to punk rock, sacred texts, partizankas in Yugoslavia, painters, and other writers, Heathen summons from the ouija of a larger-than-human ecological consciousness, the connections between past and present, the self and others, (other creatures, other lives, other landscapes) living and dead, enacting this desire through a poetic language that will never cease its longing. Outskirts embodies the call to fuck the patriarchy and to never stop fighting for a better world through the enlargement of love and community beyond man-made borders"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Uxor Pilate

Portrait of a Courtesan

Demarcation Line

Fuse

I Want to Tell You About a Girl, Captures

Excerpt of a Letter from the Front Line: Black Bread

Joan, Director's Notes

Photograph from the End of the World, Calanques

Suffocation in Filadelfia, a Brief History of Moral Exceptions

Postcards from Miss World and the Angry Brigade

Magnetic Girl

Eye Teeth, Restraining Order

Instruction Manual, Baltic

Iftar (with the Stooges), Sarajevo

Abide

Kill Yr Idols, Liner Notes

Assassin in the Gallery, a Written and Signed Confession

At the Crossing, a Warning Signal

Bail Bond

The Hearing, Sarajevo

In the First Hour of the War We Didn't Believe There Would Be a War

El Call

Cloud of Witnesses

Molotov's Announcement

Map to the Field of Palaces

The Fog

Cut Your Engines and Cool Your Wings

Laying on of Hands

Wild Orchid

At the Grave of a Woman Partisan, Montjuic Cemetery, Barcelona

( )

A Little Golden Book of Prayer for the End of My Life

Christmas Eve, Aries, and Goya's Bulls

The Last Place She Came Before She Took Her Own Life (This Is Not a Suicide Note)

Directions

First Things

Terroriste

Monster

The Stop

The Fireman's Ball

Sleepers

Unbound

Centenary

Inauguration.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Heathen. Outskirts

ISBN:

9781629221519

1629221511

OCLC:

1291268437