| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 70 pages) |
| Series |
Crab Orchard series in poetry |
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Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; *; Poem on the Verge of Interruption; Spitting Image; Poem in the Corner of a Young Girl's Mouth; La Monstrua Vestida; Obscure Her Teeth-Stiches Pulling; Horsefly; Southern Gothic; The Poetics of Fatness; Epithalamium; Interior; Starlings in Winter; Poem in the Eardrum; Washing; Splitting Image; Sonnet with a Wishbone in the Throat; *; Floating Girl; Poem at the Bottom of the Almighty Riiver; Lower Animals; I; II; III; Portrait of my Mother as the Virgin Queen; Poem on the End of a Lure; The Fisherman; My Mothers Pantry |
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Portrait of my Mother as Captain James CookOde to Sea Scurvy; Ode to Hardtack; Spyglass; Giants of the Sea; Dream with Water Beneath the Floorboards; *; Poem Traveling in a Circuit; Contrapposto; The Doubles; Excavated Girl; Spaceflight; Taking up Space; Poem in the Shape of a Grand Piano; Madame La Guillotine; Queen Ant; Echo Chamber; My Apology; Scheveningen; Burned Girl; Controlled Burn; Poem Wired with Knob and Tube; Notes; Acknowledgments; Other Titles in the Series; Back Cover |
| Summary |
"Kara van de Graaf's debut collection heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary poetry. Through poems that balance personal recollection with ekphrasis, science, and meditation, Van de Graaf searches for answers in the fluctuating relationship between the body and the self. Taking as its primary theme the exploration of the female body in current culture, Spitting Image considers the myriad intersections of the body and gender, desire, relationships, and otherness. Van de Graaf interrogates underrepresented elements of the female experience, especially the physical, rhetorical, and aesthetic limitations of fatness in poetry and other arts. She then complicates those limitations through her use of innovative forms and imaginative verse, implicitly calling for poetry to engage with the female form in fresh ways. Throughout, Van de Graaf's poems ask: In a time where we have more agency to define ourselves than ever before, what barriers still remain? What do our bodies mean to who we are? At turns oblique and direct, Van de Graaf's poems strive to create space for themselves not only in the field of contemporary poetry but also in a larger world that has been prone to ignoring or shaming women for their bodies. That these poems succeed on both counts is a testament to this remarkable new poet, who claims 'That millimeter of space that means / all of us are apart, that means / we can never really touch / anything ... Yes, I want that, too.'"-- Provided by publisher |
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"Spitting Image explores how fatness situates the female body in contemporary culture. Poems in this collection often consider the intersection of the body and gender, desire, relationships, and otherness"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Obesity -- Poetry
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Body image -- Poetry
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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FICTION -- General.
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Body image
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Obesity
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780809336630 |
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0809336634 |
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0809336634 |
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