Deborah Landau

Skeletons (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Witty and glam, Skeletons is a prismatic collection which shrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humor and intimacy.

Existentialism takes on a glamorous flair in Deborah Landau's dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons flashes with prismatic effect across the persistent allure of the flesh. Initiated during Brooklyn's early lockdown, the book reflects the increasingly troubling simultaneity of Eros and Thanatos, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics. Spring blooms relentlessly while the ambulances siren by. Against the mounting pressure that propels the acrostic Skeletons, a series of interstitial companion poems titled Flesh negotiate intimacy and desire. The collection culminates in an ecstatic sequence celebrating the love and connection that persist despite our fraught present moment. Shrugging off her own anxiety and disillusionment with characteristic humor and pitch-perfect cadence, Landau finds levity in pyrotechnic lines, sonic play, and a wholly original language, asking: Any way outta this bag of bones?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781619322677
• Artikelnr.: 67688626

Autorenporträt

Deborah Landau is the author of four poetry collections: Soft Targetswinner of The Believer Book Award, The Uses of the Body, The Last Usable Hour, and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Uses of the Body was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and a Spanish edition of the collection, Los Usos Del Cuerpo, was published by Valparaiso Ediciones in 2017. Landau's work appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The New York Times, and has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry. She is a professor at New York University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.

Inhaltsangabe

SKELETONS 
So whatever’s the opposite of a Buddhist 
Sundays I spend feeling sorry for myself 
Spooky 
Shabbier I am still 
FLESH 
It must give pleasure 
SKELETONS 
Superluminal travel 
Sugar withdrawal symptoms
Strutting avec Cyndi Lauper 
Sucker-punched this morning 
FLESH 
Every bliss is built this way 
SKELETONS 
Sex came from nowhere 
Soon we were enthralled 
Sorry not sorry, said death. 
Surprises weren’t really our thing 
FLESH 
To be afraid of every edge 
SKELETONS 
Streaming Netflix 
Soporifics fail tonight 
S’mores aren’t vegetarian 
Studmuffin stunt man 
FLESH 
To be kissed
SKELETONS 
Shaken I download “Aura” 
Should we get a dog? 
Silence isn’t viable tonight 
Stolen year 
FLESH 
Kissing his cheek 
SKELETONS 
She tended to ruminate 
Scrooge-morning after Halloween 
Stumbled into a new context today 
Savasana pose we kept practicing 
FLESH 
I thought a lot about your body 
SKELETONS 
Sunday sloth is its own milk and honey 
Sorry to text so late 
Serenity, that’s a vicious circular one 
So after a year undercover 
FLESH 
The long and short of it 
SKELETONS 
Summer dark found us 
Sexing sunburned 
Slot machine cherries 
Skeleton, some wonder 
FLESH 
It wouldn’t be so bad 
I wanted to write the thing itself— 
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