Inconsolable objects
Book - 2024
"Part cautionary tale, part love letter to the broken objects and people of this world, Inconsolable Objects is driven by the search for beauty in the forsaken. The poems are populated with sentient tornados, fetal mice floating in a snow globe, soldiers marching past a disembodied heart, and birds that have learned to imitate the sound of an AK47. In her spectacular debut, Gomez offers a call and response to all of us stumbling towards connection. These poems witness, interrogate, mourn, praise, and provide a hopeful glimpse into the mysteries of our shared experience."
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| Location | Call Number | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Floor New Shelf | 811.6/Gomez | (NEW SHELF) | Due Jan 7, 2025 |
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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Portland :
YesYes Books
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 95 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781936919970
- I. Snapshot
- Tilt-a-whirl
- Bust
- Coachwhip
- Talking to the tornado
- Kansas
- Resurrection
- The invisible mother
- Missing history
- How to forget
- Crescent moon
- We all fall down
- Mothering
- How are we doing?
- The road
- Red-winged blackbirds
- Siren song
- II. House of freaks
- My family
- Heroin
- CT scan
- The game
- The scientist's daughter
- Baby facing the wrong way at the county jail
- Growing apples in the county jail
- Lost
- Nancyland: a visitor's guide
- Leopard eats meditating monk
- Sanctuary
- Domain
- Childhood insomnia
- III. An inventory of inconsolable objects
- Confession
- The thief
- Unsolicited
- Vengeance
- Past life
- Self portrait as sea slug
- To the Jewish girl praising Jesus in the gospel choir after her parents' divorce
- Heavens to Betsy
- Supernova
- George the snail, believed to be the last of his species, dies in Hawaii
- Ode to the non-conformist
- Still
- Why I tie my hair to trees.