If I could give you a line : poems / Carrie Oeding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oeding, Carrie, author.

Series:

Akron series in poetry.

Akron Series in Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--Poetry.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2023]

Summary:

What does it mean to make something to share publicly when you are unsure of your own presence? If I Could Give You a Line cultivates the strangeness of presence in motherhood when the self is hyper-aware of its erasure. The collection explores its obsession with the physicality of visual art, down to the line, asserting and creating a voice that longs to be as present as a waver in the line of an Agnes Martin painting. A line that pulls you in to see the hand that made it. For Oeding's speakers, to look at art as mothers gives them permission to make it. Through humor, provocation, and uncertainty, this associative work builds momentary worlds of looking and connecting. The voice in these poems are confident in their performance and gesture to the reader to participate in their world-building, using materials like toddler garbage, preliterate scribbles, boiled green beans, James Turrell's skies, Cara Delevingne's eyebrows, and Yayoi Kusama's mirrors.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Will You Line Up the Children?

The Making of Things

A Bunch of Different Parts can Make Up Ekphrasis, Including a Scoff when I Round the Museum Corner with My Baby in the Stroller. Or the Invisible Push to Keep Moving that Means Keep Looking, Like Stop Looking. Or the Things I Think of when I Look at Art and Won't Ever Explain, Even.

I Kept a Voice in My Peacock

Any Time You Want, You Can See Mothers Wiping

When I Am Not Repeating My Name, I Am Repeating My Baby's Name. I Had a Baby.

Yelling at Selfies

I Would Give You a Drawn Line

At No Time in Your Life, Can You Just be Near Something

I Have a Minute. Could You Hold It?

Yelling at Snow

Why Describe a Moment When

Hard Containers

If I Could Give You a Line

Unlined Portraits

Inside a Map of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Arm

If this Were a Sculpture, I Could Walk Around to See All of Its Sides

Hard and Soft Materials Used to Make Distance

The Roped Years

Would You Hold this Egg, Please?

Don't Wake Up the Paintings

A Few Things I did Well, or at Least Better than what was Possible

There are Places and Activities that Make Sense to Return to, and i often Ruin those the First Time by Saying, Next Time we Come we Will . . .

Ways to Keep Self-Portraiting

Direction

Catapulting a Light Pole through the Air Would be the Most be Autiful Shooting Star

A Precise, New Beginning

Impossible Holds Successfully Held

I Made a Dinner Party Centerpiece Entirely Out of You. Are You Coming?

Works Referenced

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: Oeding, Carrie If I Could Give You a Line

ISBN:

9781629222424

OCLC:

1356007791