House of Sugar, House of Stone Emily Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez, Emily (Poet), author.

Series:

Mountain west poetry series.

The mountain west poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinder- und Hausmärchen--Poetry.

Kinder- und Hausmärchen.

Fairy tales--Poetry.

Fairy tales.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Fort Collins : The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emily Pérez's House of Sugar, House of Stone weaves Grimm's Fairy Tales into the business of modern life-laptops and late nights with sleepless children-to explore an undercurrent of terror about living in a family. These poems slip between the worlds of the wolf-haunted forest and the harried house of the contemporary artist/parent, until the two blend and bleed into each other. Children learn not to trust their parents, while simultaneously yearning to win back their affections. Parents similarly question their own trustworthiness as protectors. They are devoured by children, which leaves them equally apt to dismember a lion to protect their young as they are to leave those children alone in the woods. These musical, emotionally ruthless pieces occasionally find respite, but Perez reminds us that despite our best efforts to map our way to safety: "Either way / you're lost. Either way / you'll wander into deeper woods."

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

I

Lullaby

Under the Roof

Each Day I Open the Door to Damage

Directions

A New Mother Discovers Emptiness

Self Portrait as a Dam

The Flood

Mother Love

The Meows the Thing

Further Thoughts on Responsibility

Nose Tip,

Wheat Field with Crows

Tide Pools

Dear Daughter,

Sweet Seed, Sweet Poison

To the Artists Child

Pre-Term

Childs Story

Because we Left the City

Units of Measure

Aubade

Abandon

Proposal

The Birth of Doubt

Advice to My Younger Self: Fall

Raveling Round the Lake

Dust Storm

We Cannot Sleep Alone

Verge

Child,

Epithalamium on a Theory of Gravity

The Barnyard of It

Creator, I Try

Advice to My Younger Self: Winter

Dear Creation, I Confess,

II

Further Thoughts on Abandon

Two = Part Invention

Perfect Wife

Processional

How I Learned to Love

Offering

Crossroads

We Wanted More

Later

Sometimes, Silence

In Which I First Discovered

Encounter

Spider Season

Master

Wanting Not Wanting

Presage

Husband,

On a Photograph

Carrying On

It Did Not Happen as Youd Hoped

Unsettling

Hungry

Little Song

Clutch

Before and After

Afterlife

Hush

Revision

Ambition

Preface

Never Have

Coda

Notes

Acknowledgements

Notes:

These poems are suggested by themes and characters found in Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781885635501

1885635508

OCLC:

932618853