Be recorder : poems /
Be Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. Carmen Giménez Smith turns the increasingly pressing urge to cry out into a dream of rebellion, a...
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- One: Creation myth. Origins
- Watch what happens
- Boy crazy
- Play therapy
- Self as deep as coma
- Southern cone
- Current affairs
- Interview follow-up
- No apology: a poemifesto
- Flat Earth dream soliloquy
- Two: Be recorder. Be recorder
- Three: Birthright. In remembrance of their labors
- As body II
- I will be my mother's apprentice
- Beasts
- Entanglement
- American mythos
- On teaching
- Terminal hair
- Only a shadow
- Ars poetica.