Thunderhead

1. Auflage, 2022
ISBN: 978-0-299-33674-5
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series

In this striking and nostalgic collection, Emily Rose Cole unearths the fragility and resilience of daughterhood through indelible imagery that evokes new senses of the body: swallowing keys, rain lashing eyelids, unzipping of flesh. Grieving self-portraits of historical and mythological women are woven with stirring recollections of struggling bodies and evocative spells to overcome them. Undulating with memories and magic, illness and death, these poems reveal how a single chance at life and loving can be both too much and not enough.
  Her bed,from this angle, looks like an altar. Isaiah, when you wrote,
 
The wolf will live with the lamb, what did you mean?
Some days, cancer is the wolf. Some days, the wolf is Mama.
—excerpt from “Still Life with Lines from Isaiah”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Emily Rose

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- Self-Portrait as Judy Garland
- Part One
- Spell for the Fissured Brain
- Double Memory with Train
- Imagined Snapshot: Morningstar Studios, 1988
- Lent
- Self-Portrait as Rapunzel
- Lovebites
- Prayer
- In the Year of the Divorce, My Fascinations Include: Surrealism, the Dust Bowl and The Wizard of Oz
- Protection Spell
- Somewhere Brighter
- Meditation with Infinity
- Four Poisons
- Premonition
- Part Two
- Spell for Courage
- Self-Portrait as Persephone Returning
- Passport
- Another Premonition
- Portrait: Mama as Demeter
- Her Cancer into Harvest
- Still Life with Lines From Isaiah
- Snapdragons (I)
- After the Transplant Fails, I Dream of Crocodiles
- Hospice
- All I Wanted
- Nocturne with Witch & Desire
- MRI, Barnes Jewish Hospital
- Part Three
- Spell for the Grief Song Scarred to Your Throat
- At Her Funeral, Singing
- What Makes a Pearl
- Elegy with Hemlock & Cold Tea
- Self-Portrait as Dorothy Gale
- Love Poem to Risk
- In Toulouse (I)
- MS Nocturne Without a Magician
- At Cimetere de Terre Cabade
- Snapdragons (II)
- The Night Before My Diagnosis Is Confirmed
- In Toulouse (II)
- How Not to Remember Your Mother
- MS Nocturne with Fuse, Crosshairs and Irreprable Fissure
- Dear Burglar
- Love Poem to Injection-Site Reactions
- Asked If I Miss My Mother, I Say I Miss the House
- MS Nocturne According to Ecclesiastes
- Love Poem to Myself
- What I Didn’t Call Her

Über Autor(innen)

Emily Rose Cole is a writer and lyricist from Pennsylvania. She is the author of Love & a Loaded Gun, a chapbook of persona poems from Minerva Rising Press. Her poems have appeared in American Life in Poetry, Poet Lore, and the Los Angeles Review, among others.