Landlock X
Texas Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-68003-305-2 (ISBN)
Sarah Audsley’s debut poetry collection, Landlock X, joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By examining the consequences of the international transracial adoptee experience—her own—Audsley’s collection finds more questions than solid answers. Employing a variety of poetic forms, co-opting the pastoral tradition to argue for belonging to the rural landscape—despite the inheritance of displacement and removal from a country of origin—Landlock X tries to solve for all of the (adoptee’s) variables and knows it is an impossible task that the “I”, “you”, and “we” of the poems only approximate.
...
From “The Black Cows in the Foreground”
it is unknown
where the bones
of your mother
turned to fragments
none in the painting
of the black cows
so where to grieve
her body
no parcel of land
to plant sorrow
in furrowed rows
the black cows graze
[ untranslated ] ix
I. F I E L D
In the X Pastoral 1
Crown of Yellow 2
Greenhousing 4
Case Number: K83-5XX 5
Primary Color 6
On Creating False Memory 7
Swarm 8
Letter to the Woman on the Plane 10
Moonface Phases 11
Origins & Forms: Eight Sijos 12
While in Miryang, Searching 14
Still Life with Watermelon Seeds, Mannequin, Dead Mouse 16
[ translation/1 ] 17
II. D R E S S
Confessional 20
On Not Fitting In 21
It Was a Yellow Light 22
Lament for Some Other Saigon 23
Letter To My Adoptee Diaspora 25
Broken Palette :: a retrospective in panels 26
On Meeting My Biological Father 33
Korea Doll Box 34
[American] Sampler 35
Dear Connie Chung 36
Beauty Being Beauty 37
Continuum 38
Field Dress Portal 39
[ translation/2 ] 40
III. P O R T A L
Six Persimmons 44
Anti-Pastoral 45
Initial Gestures 46
“Now, where are you from?” 49
Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2018 50
We (or in the Blue House) 51
Planet Nine, a primordial black hole, new research suggests— 52
The Black Cows in the Foreground 53
The Half-Sister, Unmet 55
Fishheads (or Fuckheads) 56
Caspian Lake 57
Notes on Garnets 61
[ translation/3 ] 62
When My Mother Returns as X 63
Waiting Children 64
Notes 66
Acknowledgments 68
With Gratitude 69
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.02.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 B&W photos of handwritten letters, 4 Colored Photo Collages |
| Verlagsort | Huntsville |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 171 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 170 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68003-305-0 / 1680033050 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68003-305-2 / 9781680033052 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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