The last unkillable thing / Emily Pittinos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pittinos, Emily, author.

Series:

Iowa Poetry Prize Series

Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [2021]

Summary:

""What will be possible / when I'm no longer sorry?" asks the speaker of THE LAST UNKILLABLE THING after the sudden death of a parent. "What do lost daughters burst into?" In this debut collection by Emily Pittinos, the speaker is tasked with relearning the ways of loneliness, family, sex, and wilderness as a person who feels thoroughly and abruptly without. Shaped by both concision and unfolding sequences, THE LAST UNKILLABLE THING is a journey across landscapes of mourning where "in [the] periphery, every shadow / is a new dead thing." The light of these poems takes on the tint of grief, and through that light the speaker reexamines what remains: her changed self, her desire, the midwestern flora, the unyielding snow. Interior and exterior ecologies blur until loss becomes a place of its own, and the only inevitability. "Doesn't it hurt," Pittinos writes, "to be human. I'm so human, I could die.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781609387648

1609387643

OCLC:

1193560070