Record details

• ISBN: 9781593767877
• ISBN: 1593767870
• Physical Description: 98 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
• Edition: First Soft Skull edition.
• Publisher: New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2025.
• Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

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And so you want a poem -- Canvas. Essay on shuttering -- "Asymmetrical images/curvature in drawing, especially in the context of a bodily function which occurs below the belt, tends too conjure thoughts of mischief" -- The day I seized was a belt buckle -- From the photo album -- Joking about the pademic, a friend tests the group chat "I've unhoed myself" -- They call the party the "set" because -- Nikon COOLPIX S210 -- L***, annotated -- A man makes a stoplight his own red-light district -- Watch right -- Tea in the museum -- Sculpture study #2 -- Starved -- The ongoing debate -- They say chivalry is dead -- If I marry a poet, we will argue over descriptions -- When I say no, the joker smiles -- Lessons in grief, piedmont triad international airport (GSO), 5:06 AM -- Photography -- Gesso. Water as villain origin story -- Mirror stage -- In a picture on my boyfriend's phone -- Investigation -- Nan's lover sees the evidence of his abuse -- The monster you may marry -- Sculpture study #3 -- Tell it like a movie / rewind -- Resting bitch face -- My friend says Steven Spielberg is invited to the cookout -- Are you jealous / a burning haibun (form created by Torrin A. Greathouse) -- Sculpture study #4 -- Your husband says let's try something new -- When the therapist asks about intimacy -- Eavesdropping -- Made over -- "Locker room talk" with Satan -- Park proposal (a Chōka) -- Duplex of lessons -- Dry down. Discomfort at the MoMA -- Formal -- In the war photography exhibit, I find so many things wrong -- One of many -- Well damn, Picasso -- Sonnet for longing being mistaken for sadness -- The ocean as misogynist -- The violence of rain -- Applied theory -- Girl's night -- I'm trying to tell you something -- Sonnet for my dating life -- A Valentine's Day poem to myself at 25 -- Re-narrativization -- Love poem, attempt I/? -- In a past life -- Evidence -- A light -- Sculpture study #5 -- Sculpture study #6, or how can I write about flowers at a time like this -- Ekphrasis on memory -- A grammar of lonliness -- Poem in which I try to have the last word -- Signature. In the lens of desire.

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African American girls > Poetry.
African American women > Poetry.

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Poetry.