Good Monster (eBook)

Diannely Antigua (Autor)

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2024
105 Seiten
Copper Canyon Press (Verlag)
978-1-61932-297-4 (ISBN)

Infos

With an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the bodys capacity to cage and cradle sadness. Diannely Antiguas Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and trauma. Poignant and guttural, the collection voyage[s] the land between crisis and hope, chronicling Antiguas reckoning with shame and her fallout with faith. As poems cage and cradle devastating truthsa stepfathers abusive touch, a mothers soft harmthe speakers anxiety, depression, and boundless need become monstrous shadows. Here, poems dance on bars, speak in tongues, and cry in psych wards. When God [becomes] a house [she] cant leave, language becomes the only currency left. We see the messiness of survival unfold through sestinas, a series of Sad Girl sonnets, and diary entriesan invented collage form using Antiguas personal journals. At the crux of despair, Antigua locates a resilient desire to find a love that will remain, to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body and, above all, to keep on living.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abuse • Afro-Latino • BIPOC • Black women poets • Body • chronic illness • chronic pain • Death • Diary • Disability • Domestic violence • Embodiment • Erotic • Feminism • Grief • Italy • Latina • Latinx • Loss • Mental Health • Mental Illness • new england poet • New York • Poet Laureate • PTSD • Rape • Religion • religious trauma • self harm • Sex • Sexual assault • Suicide • Survivor • Trauma • whiting award winner • Women Writers
• ISBN-10: 1-61932-297-8 / 1619322978
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-297-4 / 9781619322974