Good grief, the ground / Margaret Ray ; foreword by Stephanie Burt..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, Margaret, 1984- author.

Contributor:

Burt, Stephanie, 1971- writer of foreword.

Series:

New poets of America series ; vol. 49.

New poets of America series ; no. 49

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

112 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2023.

Summary:

"Margaret Ray is pulling back the curtains on our societal performance of culture, guiding an exposing light to the daily performance that is life in a woman's body. Selected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Margaret Ray's Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted unto women through personal, political, and national lenses. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Ray alternates between dark humor and heart-wrenching honesty to explore grief, anxiety, queer longing, girlhood, escape from an abusive relationship, and the dangers of lending language to a thing. With stunning wit and precision and attention, we see Ray show us what it is to be human: the mess of tenderness and darkness and animosity. Out of the heavy Florida dusk, out of peach juice and late-night swimming pool break-ins and grocery store aisles comes these completely captivating poems. In the words of Stephanie Burt: "Come and see. Take care. Dive in.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The End of August

Haunt

Making Out at the Movies

Hail Mary

Expulsion Lessons but Replace the Garden with a Swamp

Tourist

A Collection of Dangerous Things Interspersed with Things Occasionally Fine or Good

Freezing the Meat

The View from Here

Getting Your Period at the Water Park

Quick-Change at the Lady `Canes'

While Wandering in Montreal, I Mistake Desire for that Feeling You Get When You Actually Want to Be Another Person

My Younger Self Speaks to Me and I Write Down What She Says

Wanda is a Particle Physicist

Star Witness

Enough

Substance and Accident

Dead Ringer

[Once when we were walking, winter]

Fuck, Marry, Bury: Loneliness, Solitude, Isolation

Reader, I Married Him

ShamWow

Something that Floats

Superstitions of the Mid-Atlantic

Show/Tell

Divorced Invertebrate

Eve Signs the Papers

Wanda Vibing

Still Life

If a Lion Could Speak, We Couldn't Understand Him

Late & Soon

Gig Economy

The Problem of Where to Put Things

Taxonomy

Request for Repair

Disaster A/version / Re/vision

Grief is a Sudden Room

Transmission Received from Penelope in Deep Space

Memory Palace

Wanda in the World

After

Archimedes, Get out of the Tub

Peaches

Along for the Ride

First, and Then, and Then

The Clearing

At the Tolstoy Museum We Sat and Wept

Civilization VI

Fuck, Marry, Bury: Speaker, Poem, Poet

Garden State

At a Distance.

Notes:

A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize

Other Format:

Online version: Ray, Margaret, 1984- Good grief, the ground.

ISBN:

9781950774845

1950774848

OCLC:

1345218069