Long exposure Poems
Book - 2023
Long Exposure follows a single mother in the years after her son's birth as she struggles with postpartum depression and a painful separation from her child's father. Forced to reckon with her own childhood experiences, including the death of her brother to an accidental overdose, the speaker examines, as if through a camera lens, memories videotaped together. The book explores familial grief, addiction, and mental illness through language both surreal and plain, domesticated and haunted. These poems ask what it means to be an artist and a mother, outside of female friendships and romantic relationships. The poems, experienced as part fever dream, part damaged video footage, exist in a darkly overgrown and hypnotic landscape. Ulti...mately, the book is a portrait of a speaker locating many selves from long ago, resurrecting what images she can from the recovered video footage of her personal archive.-- Back cover.
| Location | Call Number | Status | |
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| 2nd Floor New Shelf | 811.6/Morrison | (NEW SHELF) | Due Dec 2, 2024 |
- Subjects
- Genres
- poetry
Poetry - Published
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Springfield, Missouri :
Moon City Press, Department of English, Missouri State University
2023.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 86 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780913785775
- Myths About Trees
- Part I. Fertile Window
- Treatment
- Does Monogamy Suit You
- Offspring
- Visitor
- Drift
- Death by Landscape
- Dispatch
- At Squire Point
- Hammerhead
- Alouette
- University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
- Sugar
- Katarina
- At the Lake
- Owl
- The Field
- The Middle House
- Sketch of Winter
- Sleep Anxiety
- Eggs After Sell-By Date
- Part II. Montage of a Drowning
- Mother Summer
- Invitation From My Brother
- A Disease of the Mind
- Video Footage
- In Proportion
- Sex Drive
- Good Night's Sleep
- Zero
- Primary
- Voice Broke
- Part III. Rough Cut of Snow
- Cathexis, or I've Already Seen You
- Some Wolves
- How to Turn Myself Off
- In the Snow Globe Weather
- I Don't Want to Be a Sad Mother
- Sleeping Apart
- Two
- Playscape
- Footnote to a Blizzard
- Moon Charger
- Introduction to Floating
- Force Majeure
- Loneliest Day of Being Your Mother
- Last of
- Baby Doll
- Where You Get Your Distance From
- Slanting Snow
- Wood Thrush
- Fossil Gorge
- Password
- Stackars Lilla Basse
- Unfinished Ocean
- Notes
- Acknowledgments