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- ISBN 9780299347147
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 191mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2024
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In raw, lyrical poems, Host explores parasitic relationships—between men and women, sons and mothers, and humans and the Earth—and considers their consequences. Throughout this collection, flukes abound, both chance occurrences and flatworms changing their hosts’ behavior. How much control do we have over our lives? To what extent are we being controlled? And how much does it matter in the end?
Revealing the unvarnished pain of mistreatment—whether inflicted maliciously or accidentally—Lisa Fay Coutley examines legacies of abuse in poems that explore how trauma parasitizes bodies, infecting the text, repeating in language and image the injuries the body has been subjected to. How can people heal from intergenerational trauma—and how can humans mend themselves when they live on a planet they abuse daily?
Ask me why
light can pour warm through a cold bay
window while water under sun is dark
as a closed door. A man’s hand
erases a girl’s thigh. The trees start starving
themselves into everyone’s favorite color.
Her darkest room digs itself
below her throne. The body knows no
wrong move. The more love, the more.
—Excerpt from “Oubliette”
Revealing the unvarnished pain of mistreatment—whether inflicted maliciously or accidentally—Lisa Fay Coutley examines legacies of abuse in poems that explore how trauma parasitizes bodies, infecting the text, repeating in language and image the injuries the body has been subjected to. How can people heal from intergenerational trauma—and how can humans mend themselves when they live on a planet they abuse daily?
Ask me why
light can pour warm through a cold bay
window while water under sun is dark
as a closed door. A man’s hand
erases a girl’s thigh. The trees start starving
themselves into everyone’s favorite color.
Her darkest room digs itself
below her throne. The body knows no
wrong move. The more love, the more.
—Excerpt from “Oubliette”
Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of tether; Errata, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition; In the Carnival of Breathing, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition; and Small Girl: Micromemoirs; and the editor of the grief anthology In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy. She is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship; an Academy of American Poets Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize, chosen by Dana Levin; and a Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, selected by Natalie Diaz. She is an associate professor of poetry and creative nonfiction in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
