Auto/Body / Vickie Vértiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vértiz, Vickie, author.

Series:

Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry.

Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Mexican American women--Poetry.

Mexican American women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2023]

Summary:

The poems in Auto/Body are an inexhaustible engine--sometimes a body, sometimes flesh--a sensual exploration of what it means to repair, to remake, to keep going even when rebuilding feels impossible.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

ALTERNATOR

nature armed medicine

Umbral

Only We Make Beautiful Things Just to Destroy Them

'69 Chevy Impala

I don't know what else to tell you about teargas

Anther

San Francisco

This Is the Kind of Shit I Can't Talk to Anyone About

God Is a Jacket Made of Tinsel

La Cuenta

George Michael at the Virgin Megastore

Desfile

Disco

'61 Ford Sunliner

I('m) a dominó, every here

You. Just. Can't. Kill. Us.

Happiness Is Going to Pieces

DISTRIBUTOR

I Want to Last

Do You Know What Time It Is?

La Corona

'70 Chevy El Camino

'85 Chevy El Camino

Caprice Classic

Thank You 1-800#s

Still-Each and Every

I Take-and Keep-My Flesh

I'm that bitch: A Voice Mail

Three Girls in a Subway

TRANSMISSION

Dictation

We Had to Become Doves: An American Sonnet

Jotería [All the things you forgot to say]

In College I Learned to Swim

Cyanotype (in a New York Public Library)

At 4 a.m., the radio is off

It Is Winter and You're No Bunny Slope

Overheard in a Garden

Here, My Photo of You

Mexika Hi Fem (Coatlicue Come)

Notes.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Vértiz, Vickie Auto/Body

ISBN:

9780268203917

OCLC:

1372322457