Born backwards : poems / Tanya Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Tanya, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

75 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : YesYes Books, [2024]

Summary:

"Born Backwards, Tanya Olson's third collection, reports from inside butch culture in the 1980s American South as it traces how geography, family, experiences, and popular culture shape one queer life. The collection argues for recording these moments before they disappear, not for the purposes of nostalgia but because of their importance to building a future. Like much of Olson's other work, these poems locate the extraordinary within the commonplace-- hearing the songs of the Carter Family, reading a child's version of Frankenstein, discovering k.d. lang, and watching soap operas with a grandmother become the building blocks of becoming an individual." Publisher's website.

Contents:

Born backwards

Don't come home

Reader last night

What a poem do

Why we invented

Poet is pig

Karma Police

Burd n da mowth

More broadcaster

A mother deep

My diorama game

Vanity Fair

Faced with death my mother

We the menopausal

Don't Come Home

Build back butch

Let me not forget me not

And they look

Up my tree

Having reached the middle.

ISBN:

9781936919994

1936919990

OCLC:

1446523546

Publisher Number:

90102396068