Resting bitch face : poems / Taylor Byas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byas, Taylor (Poet), Author.

Standardized Title:

Resting bitch face (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/855b0f7e-bf19-2991-b47b-137d5f212a97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American girls--Poetry.

African American girls.

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Genre:

Poetry.

poetry.

Physical Description:

98 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Soft Skull edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Resting Bitch Face is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism, and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ground between poetry and prose. Taylor Byas uses some of our most common ways of 'watching' throughout history (painting, films, sculpture, and photographs) to explore how these mediums shape Black female subjectivity. From the examination of artwork by Picasso, Gauguin, Sally Mann, and Nan Goldin, Byas displays her mastery of the poetic form by engaging in intimate and inventive writing. Fluctuating between watcher and watched, the speaker of these poems uses mirrors and reflections to flip the script and talk back to histories of art, text, photography, relationships, and men. From Polaroids to gesso primer to sculpture, Byas creates a world in which the artist calls out and the muse responds. For not only does she enter the world of the long-revered classic artist, but she also infuses her poems with such iconic pop-culture works as The Joker, WandaVision, and Last Tango in Paris"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

And so you want a poem

Canvas. Essay on shuttering

"Asymmetrical images/curvature in drawing, especially in the context of a bodily function which occurs below the belt, tends too conjure thoughts of mischief"

The day I seized was a belt buckle

From the photo album

Joking about the pademic, a friend tests the group chat "I've unhoed myself"

They call the party the "set" because

Nikon COOLPIX S210

L***, annotated

A man makes a stoplight his own red-light district

Watch right

Tea in the museum

Sculpture study #2

Starved

The ongoing debate

They say chivalry is dead

If I marry a poet, we will argue over descriptions

When I say no, the joker smiles

Lessons in grief, piedmont triad international airport (GSO), 5:06 AM

Photography

Gesso. Water as villain origin story

Mirror stage

In a picture on my boyfriend's phone

Investigation

Nan's lover sees the evidence of his abuse

The monster you may marry

Sculpture study #3

Tell it like a movie / rewind

Resting bitch face

My friend says Steven Spielberg is invited to the cookout

Are you jealous / a burning haibun (form created by Torrin A. Greathouse)

Sculpture study #4

Your husband says let's try something new

When the therapist asks about intimacy

Eavesdropping

Made over

"Locker room talk" with Satan

Park proposal (a Chōka)

Duplex of lessons

Dry down. Discomfort at the MoMA

Formal

In the war photography exhibit, I find so many things wrong

One of many

Well damn, Picasso

Sonnet for longing being mistaken for sadness

The ocean as misogynist

The violence of rain

Applied theory

Girl's night

I'm trying to tell you something

Sonnet for my dating life

A Valentine's Day poem to myself at 25

Re-narrativization

Love poem, attempt I/?

In a past life

Evidence

A light

Sculpture study #5

Sculpture study #6, or how can I write about flowers at a time like this

Ekphrasis on memory

A grammar of lonliness

Poem in which I try to have the last word

Signature. In the lens of desire.

ISBN:

9781593767877

1593767870

OCLC:

1494115086