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- Antidote
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The Ohio State University Press
summary
In Corey Van Landingham’s Antidote, love equates with disease, valediction is a contact sport, the moon is a lunatic, and someone is always watching. Here the uncanny coexists with the personal, so that each poem undergoes making and unmaking, is birthed and bound in an acute strangeness. Elegy is made new by a speaker both heartbreaking and transgressive. Van Landingham reveals the instability of self and perception in states of grief; she is not afraid to tip the world upside down and shake it out, gather the lint and change from its pockets and say, “I can make something with this.”
Wild and surreal, driven by loss, Antidote invites both the beautiful and the brutal into its arms, allowing for shocking declarations about love: that it is like hibernation, a car crash, or a parasite. Time, geography, and landscape are called into question as backdrops for various forms of valediction. It soon becomes clear that there is no antidote one can take for grief or heartbreak; that love can, at times, feel like violence; and that one may never get better at saying goodbye.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments, Quote
- pp. vii-1
- 6. Antidote
- pp. 9-10
- 8. The Louse
- p. 12
- 9. Decreation
- p. 13
- 10. What You Will Encounter
- pp. 14-15
- 14. During the Autopsy
- pp. 19-20
- 15. To Have & To Hold
- pp. 21-22
- 17. [engagement:]
- p. 24
- 20. Orchard
- p. 27
- 25. Confessional
- pp. 34-35
- 28. And Badly, Too
- p. 39
- 29. Diurnal
- pp. 40-41
- 30. To Have & To Hold
- pp. 42-43
- 32. Covenant
- pp. 45-46
- 36. Hermetic
- pp. 51-52
- 40. Yield Stress
- p. 58
- 43. Eclogue
- p. 61
- 44. To Have & To Hold
- pp. 62-64
Additional Information
ISBN
9780814271155
Related ISBN(s)
9780814251874
MARC Record
OCLC
870177327
Pages
74
Launched on MUSE
2014-02-07
Language
English
Open Access
Yes