| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
95 pages ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Awards |
Jake Adam York Prize. |
| Contents |
Do you speak virgin? -- Taste. Summer barbecue with two men / Author -- A little charm -- You really killed that 80's love song -- Expiration date -- Apologia over marinated lamb -- Purgatory tastes like eggs -- Revelation. South Texas Persephone -- Revelation at the All-Girls School -- Private property -- Philosopher king -- I'm trying to write a poem about a virgin and it's awful -- Humiliation. Trauma with damp stairwell -- Trauma with haberdashery -- Trauma with white Agnostic male -- Trauma with a second chance at humiliation -- Pastoral. My father & Dalí do not agree -- My father & de Chirico asleep on chairs of burnt umber -- Picnic pastoral (with dark-skinned father) -- My father lost in a game of chess -- Father fragments (or, yellow ochre) -- Myth. Ariadne discusses Theseus in relation to the minotaur -- Ariadne's guide to getting a man -- Death wish -- Theseus at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 6 a.m. -- Ariadne at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 10 a.m. -- Ariadne plays the physician -- Parable. My mother as the voice of Kahlo -- The minotaur invents the circumstances of his birth -- My mother as the face of God -- The minotaur's letter to Ariadne -- Separation anxiety -- My mother & the parable of lemons -- Rest cure. Fast track -- The single girl's rest cure -- My English Victoria dating troubles -- The Ariadne year. |
| Summary |
"Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781571315007 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1571315004 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9781571319777 (ebook) |
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