In this Book
- Empty Clip
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: Akron Series in Poetry
summary
The poems of Empty Clip bore into the cultures of violence in the United States while candidly cross-firing upon the poets’ complicity and testifying on these cultures’ effects upon female body image and mental health. From a meditation about a bullet hole-animated PowerPoint presentation on campus shooters to the startled invective against an unprovoked dick pic, lyrics brooding upon illness-driven suicidal thoughts to narratives about a slippery memory of childhood abuse, Emilia Phillips’s third poetry collection sears with the “angry love” of self, in order to find some truth that’s nevertheless “a broken bone that can’t be / set.”
Table of Contents
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- Hollow Point
- Hollow Point
- pp. 9-10
- To the Previous Tenant
- pp. 17-19
- Denouement
- pp. 20-21
- Apostrophe, Oregon Hill
- pp. 22-23
- Nocturne, Lamar’s Chrystal Lounge
- pp. 27-28
- One Year After Contemplating Suicide
- pp. 29-32
- Split Screen
- The Uncanny Valley
- pp. 39-41
- Fingers in a Throat
- pp. 47-48
- facesofdeath.com
- pp. 49-51
- Self-Portrait Without a Body
- pp. 55-56
- Dream of the Phone Booth
- pp. 57-58
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 60-61
- About the Author
- pp. 62-63
Additional Information
ISBN
9781629221007
Related ISBN(s)
9781629220994
MARC Record
OCLC
1012615717
Pages
64
Launched on MUSE
2018-05-21
Language
English
Open Access
No