Sex Augury : poems / C Bain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bain, C. (Artist), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Sex Augury is a collection that practices divination with the symbolism of our radically changed and changeable world. Exercising trans poetics, C. Bain denormalizes the violence embedded in the most intimate strata of American life. Confrontationally queer, urgently wounded, deeply political, and metaphysically transported, these poems create their own system of meaning in an environment that is increasingly hostile to meaning of any kind. This collection spans digital culture, gender reversals, and archetypal-mythic vocabularies, alongside close observation of the surround of 'ordinary' urban existence. Sex Augury is a work of dyads, not binaries--concepts bound together which nonetheless refuse to form a coherent, harmonious whole; humor and despair, tenderness and brutality, desire and revulsion. These poems bristle with intelligence, acuity of feeling, and refusal to gloss the complexity of our moment into a false narrative of progress"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Front Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

You Can Perform Divination in Any Material

Baby Mars

Letter to Her Rapist

(lies) (or, you could call it a lie)

Metamorphosis (J train out of Kosciuszko)

Pornography in Wartime

Venus

Underworld

they made a pill that keeps you from catching it

Campaign Advisement

What Saves a Boy in My Position is to Have Brothers

… and her severed head said to Perseus

Metamorphosis (8th Avenue and 14th Street)

Metamorphosis (Uptown 5 Train)

Minotaur

Lucifer Suite

Annunciation

The President Says to Shoot Up Bleach

White Power

(lies) Lyre

(Persephone's Husband Is Not Important and He Says)

After the Virus but Before the Riots

After the Virus but Before

meat /// injection

Well, the best thing my heart does

Uranus

(lies)

Exchange Rate

O, Earth

Future Archaeology

Some acknowledgments and gratitudes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Bain, C Sex Augury

ISBN:

9781636281339

1636281338

OCLC:

1382254745