Embouchure : poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Emilia.

Series:

Akron Series in Poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (115 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ashland : University of Akron Press, 2021.

Summary:

Embouchure is at turns self-deprecatory and self-revelatory as it trumpets about the speaker's closeted crushes on women and her eventual embrace of queerness. The book's disarming joy is cut with challenges to toxic masculinity, making this mock-confessionalism brassy as it is vulnerable.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Age of Beauty

My Mother Confessed i was Conceived to Ravel's "Boléro"

The Cast, in Order of Appearance

My First Kiss was in a Room where they Polish Lenses for Eyeglasses

The First Boy i thought i Loved was in a Band called Romanticide

The Only thing i Learned Working at an Italian Restaurant for that one Week when i was Eighteen was

They called me Unladylike

A Kind of Second Virginity

That Time my Mother and i were Photographed for Woman's World Magazine with our Cat Oreo Nursing on our Cocker Spaniel Ginnie,

Hyperbole is Underrated

To the Boy i caught Rummaging through my Panty Drawer During my Fifteenth Birthday Party

My Childhood Dog Jessie once ate a Box of 120-Count Crayolas and Shat Speckled Rainbows for a Week

"You should write a Poem about that," they say

Poem about Death Beginning with a Humblebrag and Ending with a Shower Beer

Memento Doloris

Deep Calls to Deep

To the Young Man who always Sat Quietly in the back of the First Literature Class i Ever Taught, who gave me a Poem Comparing me to a Commonly Hunted Bird

One of the First Girls on whom i had a Crush was Named Hope

I wanted to be Patrick Swayze, not Jennifer Grey

Scabs

Pathetic Fallacy

When the Phlebotomist Stuck the Needle in me, i looked away only to see a TV on which a Chef was Injecting Pork Loin with Marinade

This Beautiful thing is Making me so Depressed

Haha-Boohoo

At a Party a Woman Introduced herself to me as Dawn

Plaster Cast

My OB/GYN Suggests i Consider Cosmetic Labiaplasty,

At Home Alone, in my Underwear and new Strap-On

Doesn't Matter who you are or what you do, Something in the world will make a fool of you

I Used to get Boys to Kiss me by Bragging about my Embouchure

Some Sentences need to be Written in the Passive Voice.

To my Father, who Closed his Eyes and Ran Toward me with an Outstretched Towel when i came back on the beach at Mobile Unaware one of my New Boobs had Slipped my Bikini Triangle

I Tried to write a Poem called "Impostor Syndrome" and Failed

At Eleven, I Described an Aging, Female Celebrity to my Father as Looking "Rode Hard and put up Wet"

Poppies and Field Flowers

I am Alive Today because of the Tree in Front of my Bedroom Window

The Ants Weigh more than the Elephants

Confirmation Bias

Wish Against Chekhov's Gun

I have Anxiety about Anxiety

My Dog Refused to go Near the Dead Rabbit in the Backyard

Butterfly-Shaped Organ

Bloodwork

My Neighbor's Working out to Christian Pop Music in her Front Yard during a Pandemic

I think about the Time my Weather Radio Forecasted "Although the Sky will be Overcast your House will Still be Filled with Light"

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781629222141

1629222143

OCLC:

1257078224