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If we knew how to we would / Emma Barnes.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.4.B376 I4 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnes, Emma (Author), author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 77 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Auckland] : Auckland University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- I am an unmade bed. I am a single thing made up of many other things. I am a reason, a raising, a roof to be raised. I am a song you sing in your sleep. I am a collection of dots. I am a need you buried in the back garden. I am a literal spray of light across a wooden floor in a house where the sun has only just returned. I am a musical phrase. I am a lead light. I am a host. I am seven different names. I am all the fat in my body. I am the sky when it is early spring and I can't believe I exist in this colour range. I am so blue.If We Knew How to We Would answers a question nobody asked: How many thoughts can you work into a single poem?Through breakups and a pandemic, health issues and deaths, Emma Barnes's second collection is a riveting, overflowing and grief-stricken reckoning with the ordinary: a skinful of spit; insides scooped out with a melon baller; cracked like an egg and nothing inside. 'It is too much to say nothing about. It is nothing to say too much about.'
- Contents:
- Machine-generated contents:
- In Our Hands
- Lineage
- I asked
- Tensile strength
- The problem
- In your hands
- Hold my hand
- Damage
- I am a circle
- A series of gates
- The core
- The compass and the horse
- To knit is to code is to code is to knit
- Famous knots of history
- Choke
- Skinful
- Chain of connected resentment
- Mistakes in disambiguation
- The dry middle
- Don't worry, baby
- If We Knew How to We Would
- The squeeze
- Astigmatism
- Promise
- Without root
- On the day I found out you killed yourself
- Albatross
- The seams of time
- The word
- To them
- If we knew how to stay alive we would
- The project
- Flow
- Gaps
- Like a prism
- The Body is Made of People and Truth
- The truth
- The tilt
- The body house the house of the body
- The rain in twenty years
- I am
- We are
- Apple skins
- If only
- The bed made of bodies
- Giantess
- One metre
- Womb at night
- The human body
- The wrong stories
- Don't touch me
- Heavy men
- The marriage pact
- Heal thyself
- Shake the tree
- Acknowledgements
- Previously Published and References.
- ISBN:
- 9781776711888
- 1776711882
- OCLC:
- 1525383241
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