Quiet armor : poems / Stevie Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Stevie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social conditions--Poetry.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Quiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Parthenogenesis

Window Shopping

Easy as Pie

Ladylike

Nobody Is Lost

What Is Left to Say about the Body

Composed

Portrait of My Mother, Age

Spell for Undoing a Life Sentence

Essay on Guns

Verity

Clytemnestra, Daughter of Leda, Beholds a Swan

Dream without Men

Red Spell

Mouthy

Self-Portrait as Medusa

Calling Her Names

Elegy for Lavinia

Five Days before the Election

Rumor Has It

Drunk Bitch Dreams of a Luminous Stream

Babylove

Harm's Way

Drunk Bitch Wants to Fuck Like a Man

After the Election I Woke Up

What I Left

Learning to Leave a Bad Thing Alone

Drunk Bitch Tries Her Hand at Recovery

Medusa with the Head of Harvey Weinstein

The Astonishing

A Few More Lines on Lavinia

Some Things We Carried

Medusa as Shield

Dread Myth

Somes Lines in which I Want to Go On

Aubade with the Longest Eyelashes

On Progeny

Some Threads from a Depression

Ode to Chill Pills

Self-Portrait as Too Much

On Want

All the Heavens Were a Bell

Another Poem about Pain

Dear Extraterrestrials,

Ode to Joy

Entreaty

Epithalamion

Tapping Therapy.

ISBN:

9780810146464

0810146460

OCLC:

1374815786