Horrible dance / Avery Lake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lake, Avery, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Kingston, ON : Brick Books, [2022]

Summary:

"A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake's poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake persistently returns us to the search for love that lies at the core of relational trauma, even as she shows us how catastrophically such a search can be derailed. This is a rare text able to hold the full velocity of a survivor's hurt and rage alongside a clear-eyed understanding of the extent and complexity of harm. In their honest accounting of a wide array of bad encounters, these poems point us, again, toward compassion, tenderness, and solidarity. can you forgive me for how you hurt me so bad--"On Shame""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Act I The Home

Outdoor Cat

Pre-Transition House Party Disaster

Parts of Men's Bodies That Tell Their Confessions and Horrors

On Womanhood

Disposability Blues

Bruise (v.): to continue through the river, even as He grows heavier

Family/History

Act II The Other

On Shame

Night at the Sexual Assault Centre Art Show

Reasons Not to Get Married

A Pearl

Reposition I Burn Something

Reposition II What Mask

The purest breakup poem is the bit in the lighthouse when robert pattinson makes willem dafoe his pup & then immediately kills him & then Dies

Greenhouse

Sonnet Under Ice

Act III The Relations of Production

Pop Quiz

Color Study: Unemployed

Color Study: Desk v. Window

Sonnet for the Boss's Son

Color Study: Full-Time

Color Study: Crying@Work

Suicide in Translation

How to Live Alone

Houses and People

Grief Sestina

Bruise (n.): an inability to sleep

Color Study: Horrible Dance

Good Advice from an Undiscovered Atom.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Lake, Avery. Horrible dance.

ISBN:

9781771315753

177131575X

OCLC:

1268147256