Groundspeed / Emilia Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Emilia, author.

Series:

Akron series in poetry.

Akron series in poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Groundspeed moves and doesn't stop moving. From pastorals on American highways to self-reckonings after a cancer diagnosis to examinations on grief and transience after the death of a brother, this collection of poems asks readers not only to size up threats but anxieties. Phillips witnesses a small plane crash and examines roadside attractions. She reckons with sexuality after a partner asks for a threesome, and renders a candid portrait of a nude, post-surgery body in a mirror. In this raw and personal book, Phillips insists upon one's own preservation through and beyond grief and trauma with the warning "creation is only // myth; destruction narrative."

Contents:

Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I; Reading Ovid at the Plastic Surgeon's; Life Vest Under Your Seat; Stopping at Texaco a Year After My Brother's Death; Wheelchair in a Hayloft; Pastoral (Future Interstate); Entente; Abstinence Lesson; The Showers; The Bright Obvious; II; YouTube: Dog Eating a Human Leg on the Ganges; Lodge; Static, Frequency; Pastoral (Oncoming); The Episode of Cops in Which My Father Appears; The Wind Lends a Voice to the Mountain Laurel Above Pretty Polly's Grave; All These Things Shall Be Added Unto You; Strata; Tomography; III

"The Rising Cost of Dying"Pastoral (With One's Head out the Car Window); Phaeacia's Orchard; Bruce Bickford at the Edge of the World; Snake Woman; Groundspeed; Paradiso; Saul Bass Redesigns the First Man; Roadside America; Cartography in Absentia; Aubade; Pastoral (Radio); Supine Body in Full-Length Mirror, Hotel Room, Upper West Side; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781629220376

162922037X

9781629220369

1629220361

OCLC:

935676806