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- Veil and Burn
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: National Poetry Series
summary
Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. xi-xiv
- Coming Down
- pp. 1-2
- The Spaces Between
- [Mesh Fragment]
- p. 6
- In a Field Distractions Rise
- [Practice Fragment]
- p. 12
- Seizure, or Seduction of Persephone
- [Needle Fragment]
- p. 15
- [Halo Fragment]
- p. 19
- Cutting Distance
- [Frame Fragment]
- p. 23
- After Eight Years
- pp. 24-25
- Work
- [Gingham Fragment]
- p. 28
- Ode to the Upper Lip
- pp. 31-32
- Case History: Frankenstein's Lesions
- pp. 33-36
- Alfred Hitchcock Meets the Blob
- [Gauze Fragment]
- p. 39
- Inheritance
- pp. 42-43
- Hypoethesia
- pp. 44-45
- Reluctant Pegasus
- 2. Membrane
- p. 49
- 5. Reluctant Pegasus
- pp. 52-53
- 7. Pegasus, a Ghost
- pp. 55-56
- 9. What Holds
- pp. 58-59
- [Mosaic Fragment]
- p. 62
- Wrong Turn Near Pecos
- [Chipped Fragment]
- p. 65
- Retrobulbar
- Undressing the Tree
- p. 69
- The Shaking
- p. 70
- Eating the Night
- p. 72
- Nicholas Ray Directs a Poem
- Back Lot Field Notes
- pp. 76-77
- Washing Up
- pp. 78-80
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252091681
Related ISBN(s)
9780252032769, 9780252075032
MARC Record
OCLC
811409798
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007