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- The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected
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- 2015
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Winner of the 2016 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Emanuel’s version of a “new and selected poems” turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O’Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity. It breaks through, in ways that are bold, sexy, haunting and wry, the die-hard opposition of new and old, personal narrative and linguistic play, sincerity and irony, misery and hilarity. Open the book. Something new is happening here.
Emanuel’s version of a “new and selected poems” turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O’Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity. It breaks through, in ways that are bold, sexy, haunting and wry, the die-hard opposition of new and old, personal narrative and linguistic play, sincerity and irony, misery and hilarity. Open the book. Something new is happening here.
Table of Contents
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- Note To the Reader
- p. xi
- I
- Stone Soup
- p. 4
- The Sleeping
- p. 6
- She Is Six
- p. 13
- Outside Room Six
- p. 15
- Ordinary Objects
- pp. 17-18
- Big Black Car
- pp. 19-20
- II
- The Garden
- p. 23
- The Technology of Love
- pp. 24-25
- Blonde Bombshell
- p. 28
- The White Dress
- p. 29
- Portrait of the Author
- pp. 31-32
- III
- Self-Portrait
- p. 39
- Dressing the Parts
- pp. 40-42
- Homage to Sharon Stone
- pp. 44-45
- On Waking after Dreaming of Raoul
- pp. 46-47
- Inspiration
- p. 48
- Walt, I Salute You!
- pp. 50-51
- The Occupation
- p. 52
- In English in a Poem
- p. 55
- inside gertrude stein
- pp. 60-62
- IV
- Grieving Was
- p. 67
- Ars Poetica
- p. 71
- Halfway Through the Book I’m Writing
- pp. 72-73
- The Burial
- pp. 74-75
- These Days,
- pp. 76-77
- Talking with Frank O’Hara
- pp. 78-79
- Metamorphosis
- p. 80
- Stray Dogg
- p. 81
- Dogg Howse
- p. 82
- Who Iz Dogg?
- p. 85
- V
- The Murder Writer
- pp. 91-92
- Dead Girl’s Bedroom
- p. 93
- Homage to Dickinson
- p. 97
- Then, Suddenly —
- pp. 100-102
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 103-107
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822981053
Related ISBN(s)
9780822963691
MARC Record
OCLC
914355392
Pages
119
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-17
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015