The fix : poems / by Lisa Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Lisa, 1982- author.

Series:

Iowa poetry prize.

Iowa poetry prize

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages ; cm.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

Summary:

Proceeding from Hélène Cixous's charge to "kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing, " The Fix forges that woman's reckoning with her violent past, with her sexuality, and with a future unmoored from the trappings of domestic life. These poems of lyric beauty and unflinching candor negotiate the terrain of contradictory desire-often to darkly comedic effect. In encounters with strangers in dive bars and on highway shoulders, and through ekphrastic engagement with visionaries like William Blake, José Clemente Orozco, and the Talking Heads, this book seeks the real beneath the dissembling surface. Here, nothing is fixed, but grace arrives by diving into the complicated past in order to find a way to live, now. "Woman Seated with Thighs Apart" Often I am permitted to return to this kitchen tipsy, pinned to the fridge, to the precise instant the kiss smashed in. When the jaws of night are grinding and the double bed is half asleep the snore beside me syncs to the traffic light, pulsing red, ragged up in the linen curtain. I leak such solicitous sighs to asphalt, slicked with black ice, high beams speed over my body whole while the drugstore weeps its remedy in strident neon throbs- I doubt I'll make it out. It's a cold country. It's the sting of quarantine. It's my own two hands working deep inside the sheets.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I

Chore Wheel

"Cain Flees"

Self-Portrait with Hands

Lake Havasu

Theory of Knowledge

Saddle Shoes

1989

"Woman Seated with Thighs Apart"

Up

II

The Fix

Canis Vulgaris

Instructions

Memoir

Object Relations

Refusal Studies

Resurrections

Revelations

Revelations II

BEAST

III

Resurrections II

"Under the Water, Carry the Water"

The Hitch

We Must Be Coming Down

Repairing the Flat

Monday Night at the Pagoda

State of a Fair

Winemaking

"Poetry Man".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781609385484

1609385489

OCLC:

1004957227