Simulacra / Airea D. Matthews ; foreword by Carl Phillips.
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, ins...
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| Other title: | Poems. Selections |
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Yale series of younger poets ;
v. 111. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Carl Phillips
- Meeting want. Rebel prelude - The mine owner's wife - Letters to my would-be lover on geometry and ponds - Temptation of the composer - HERO(i)N - On meeting want for the first time - The good dentist's wife - Meeting Anne Sexton
- ...And repeating. Sexton texts a dead addict's daughter during Polar vortex - Meeting want (again) - An ingenue texts Sexton before the honey moon - From the pocket of his lip - Sexton texts a backslider after breaking lent - Rebel opera - Pious - Sekhment's conceit - Select passages from The holy writ of us - Letters to my would-be lover on dolls and repeating - Blind calculus (from Barthes' A lover's discord) - Quiet desperation texts Sexton on Independence Day - The lover problem in analogue (from Wittgenstein's Lost black book) - Confessions from here - Dodecaphony - Can? (from Wittgenstein's Lost black book)
- Who. If my late grandmother were Gertrude Stein - Descent of the composer - Sexton texts Tituba from a bird conservatory - Narcissus tweets - Sekhmet after hours - Privileged ghosts of Paris - Anne Sexton checks the composer's vitals (from the archived transcripts) - Psyche on Prozac - Sekhmet's query - Rebel fugue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments.