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Milk Tongue

English

By (author): Irne Mathieu

An exploration of what we inherit or pass on, illuminating the gray area between ubiquitous human desires and overconsumption.

Irène Mathieus third collection, milk tongue, refers to the layer of milk that coats a babys tongue, which often is a challenge to distinguish from thrush, the overgrowth of naturally occurring yeast. As poet and pediatrician, Mathieu explores how we diagnose and investigate where normal consumption and overconsumption meet. How do we learn what to desire? What happens when what we want is destructive to our world? How might we reconceive of (be)longing in a way that rejects overconsumption?

These poems suggest, what if, more than place, its about sound? In milk tongue Mathieu uses haibun, long poems, and experimental forms to explore what we inherit or pass on privilege, oppression, anxiety, hypnagogic conjure, and a warming earth and envisage how, through deep attention to the emotional vibrations under the surface of these phenomena, we might become both human and an / animal worthy of this speck of dust.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 228 x 152mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Jul 2023
  • Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781646052660

About Irne Mathieu

Irène P. Mathieu (she/her) is an academic pediatrician writer and public health researcher. She is author of Grand Marronage (Switchback Books 2019) which won Editor's Choice for the Gatewood Prize and runner-up for the Cave Canem/Northwestern Prize; orogeny (Trembling Pillow Press 2017) which won the Bob Kaufman Book Prize; and the galaxy of origins (dancing girl press & studio 2014). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review Narrative Boston Review Southern Humanities Review Los Angeles Review Callaloo Foundry TriQuarterly and elsewhere. Irène has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Irène is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Co-Director of the Program in Health Humanities at the University of Virginia. For more information please visit irenemathieu.com.

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