Our lady of bewilderment : poems /
Whether by way of visitations from secular saints, hauntings from childhood or the lingering damage of physical and mental trauma, the world speaks to and through Alison Pelegrin in Our Lady of Bewilderment. Thankfully she listens, and the result is her most humorous, honest and intimate collection...
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Barataria poetry.
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Table of Contents:
- I. RITUALS FOR SERVING AMBROSIA
- Doomsday's Daughter
- Royal Ancestry
- Bildungsroman
- Pisces Dreams and a Boat Named The Stripper
- Even in Gretna, Hearing the Cashier Talk, I Long for Gretna
- Our Lady on the Half Shell
- Quicksilver
- Biopic
- Sucker
- Up and Down the River
- Denim and Diamonds
- Rituals for Serving Ambrosia
- Feast of the Cajun Navy
- II. RAZOR DAYS
- Our Lady Who Thinks She Is a Saint
- The Pelegrin in Her Piety: A Lingo Sonnet
- Flood Subject
- Brain Fever
- Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers
- Dolly
- Walk-Through
- Our Lady of the Flood
- Razor Days
- Feast of My Medjugorje Lies.
- III. RAGE GODDESS
- Our Lady of Whatever
- My Snatch Is Pretty Good
- Heifer
- Excising a Memorial to the Confederate General Robert E. Lee
- Resting Bitch Face
- Our Lady of "No Ragrets"
- Our Lady of the Ingrates
- Rage Goddess
- Apology
- Feast of Banana Spiders, Starlight, and Roadkill
- IV. THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL US
- Messenger
- Walking on Water
- Myth of Myself
- Mysteria
- Regarding My Prolonged Absence from Church
- Our Ladies of the Quarantine
- Deluge: A Triple Sonnet
- The Close Part
- Our Lady of Bewilderment
- Soliloquy against a Kudzu Backdrop
- That Which Does Not Kill Us
- Feast with a Mouthful of Bees.