Or what we'll call desire : poems

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Title:

Or what we'll call desire : poems

Alternate title:

Or what we will call desire

Author:

Teague, Alexandra, 1974- author.

Summary:

"The poems in this book are largely concerned with perceptions and portrayals of the female body and experience. Subjects include artist model Audrey Munson, Slavic folklore, and suicide."-- Provided by publisher.

General Note:

"A Karen & Michael Braziller Book."

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

65 pages ; 23 cm

Genre:

Poetry.

Subject Term:

American poetry -- 21st century.

Women -- Poetry.

Publisher:

Persea Books,

Publication Date:

2019

ISBN:

9780892554997

Publication Information:

New York : Persea Books, [2019]

Call Number:

811.6 TEAGUE

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Summary

This heartrending and darkly playful new collection by Alexandra Teague tries to understand the edges of self in a patriarchal culture and in relation to a family history of mental illness and loss. In poems that mix high art and popular culture (from classical Greek statues to giant plaster artichokes, Cubism to Freudian Disney dolls), Teague interweaves self-reflection with the stories and lives of mythic and historic female figures, such as the dangerous-wise witch Baba Yaga and early-20th-century sculptors' model Audrey Munson--calling across time and place to explore desire, grief, and the representation and misrepresentation of the female form.

Author Notes

Alexandra Teague is the author of two previous books of poetry-Mortal Geography, winner of the 2010 California Book Award, and The Wise and Foolish Builders-and a novel, The Principles Behind Flotation. She is also co-editor of Bullets into Bells: Poets Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. She is a professor at the University of Idaho.

Self Portrait as Curious Lunatic's Sketch of a Dancing Girl	p. 3
In the Case of Mlle. Zina Brozia of the Paris Grand Opera Versus M. Jean Metzinger, Cubist	p. 5
The Giant Artichoke	p. 7
End Times	p. 9
Baba Yaga Rides It's a Small World	p. 10
Driving After Rain	p. 11
Requiem for No Hands	p. 13
Ofelia Plays Like a Girl	p. 15
Baba Yaga Appears in Intro to Feminist Theory for an Impromptu Lecture	p. 16
The Hungry Eye	p. 18
Ode to Theda	p. 20
The Altogether	p. 22
The Louvre Saloon, San Jose: Hatchetation, 1903	p. 23
Matryoshka (as Madness)	p. 24
Suicide Notes (as M.C. Escher's Impossible Constructions)	p. 27
Ofelia Has Not Seen Even One of the Seven Wonders of the World, and People Keep Making New Lists	p. 30
At 14, I Would Have Traded Adulthood for a Role in CATS	p. 32
Sketch: Charcoal and Body on Paper	p. 33
Duchamp's Nude Descending Speaks	p. 34
How to Become Stained Glass	p. 35
Ofelia Looks for Anger at the Metropolitan Museum	p. 36
Geodes	p. 38
Letters to Phryne	p. 40
Late American Aubade	p. 50
Spread Spectrum	p. 51
Audrey Munson Committed to the St. Lawrence State Asylum for the Insane, 1931	p. 53
Gem State	p. 54
Tabloid Elegy	p. 56
The Meteorologist Receives More Letters Asking	p. 58
Audrey Munson Reimagines Her Life as Still Life	p. 59
Baba Yaga Invites Fort Worth Girl Scout Troop #23 for a Campout	p. 60
Seine with Pomona: The Goddess of Abundance	p. 62
Notes on the Poems	p. 63
Acknowledgments	p. 65

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