The End of Pink
BOA Editions, Limited (Verlag)
978-1-942683-14-8 (ISBN)
Winner of the 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End of Pink is populated by strange characters--Bat Boy, automatons, taxidermied mermaids, snake oil salesmen, and Benjamin Franklin--all from the annals of science and pseudoscience. Equal parts fact and folklore, these poems look to the marvelous and the weird for a way to understand childbirth, parenthood, sickness, death, and--of course--joy. Finding myself in a mesmeric orientation, before me appeared Benjamin Franklin, who magnetized his French paramours at dinner parties as an amusing diversion from his most serious studies of electricity and the ethereal fire. I like thinking about how he would have stood on tiptoe to kiss their buzzing lips and everyone would gasp and clap for the blue spark between them. I believe in an honest and forthright manner, a democracy of plain speech, so I have to find a way to explain I don't care to have sex anymore. Kathryn Nuernberger has lived in various corners of Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, and Montana. Her first book, Rag & Bone (Elixir Press, 2011), was a love letter to backwoods junk collectors and all of the abandoned cabins in the foothills to the Ozark Mountains.
An unapologetic dilettante, she has received research fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research aspects of the history of science and medicine. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, teaches at the University of Central Missouri, and serves as the director of Pleiades Press.
Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of Rag & Bone, which won the 2010 Elixir Press Antivenom Prize. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Central Missouri, where she also serves as the director of Pleiades Press. She has received research grants from the American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life.
The Symbolical Head as When Was the Last Time?…7
More Experiments with the Mysterious Property of Animal Magnetism (1769) …. 9
Zoontological Sublime … 12
About Derrida, If You’re into That …. 16
Bat Boy Washed Up on Shore …. 19
Benjamin Harding to Prospective Investors on the Refining Effects of Static Electricity and Volcanic Action in the Ultimate Production of Both Atomic (or Molecular) and FREE Pure Metallic Gold (1838) … 21
Testimonial (1888)…. 23
P. T. Barnum’s Figi Mermaid Exhibition as I Was Not the Girl I Think I Was …. 25
I Concede the Point, I Concede the Point, I Concede the Point … 27
Wonders and Mysteries of Animal Magentism Displayed (1791) as What I Want Is … 29
Rituals of the Bacabs as the Strange Case of Kate Abbott … 31
Birds of Ohio …. 33
Reading Drops of Water: Showing the Mysteries of the Visible World (1873)
as Love Poem … 34
The Book of Knowledge, the Experienced Farrier, &c. (1793) as The Best of
All Possible Worlds … 36
The End of Pink … 38
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The Saint Girl’s Sweetest Tortures… 40
The Saint Girl Died and Went to Heaven and That Was One Problem After Another … 41
Ways In Which the Saint Girl Is and Is Not Me; Also So What If She Is and What If She Isn’t … 42
The Saint Girl Discovers an Orgasmitron … 44
The Saint Girl Tries to Do the Right Thing … 45
The Saint Girl’s Isochronal Error … 46
The Saint Girl Takes in Strays … 47
The Saint Girl Opens the Window and Closes It as She Pleases … 48
The Nimbuses of Devils … 49
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Or Perhaps Not … 51
My First Peacock … 52
Property Lines … 53
When Cortez Came …. 55
Little Brown Jug, Look on the Bright Side …. 56
My Peacock among the Phantasmagoria … 57
Whatever You Need … 60
Toad … 62
My Peacock’s Daguerrotype … 64
Peter, Raised by Wolves (1726) … 67
Rene Descartes and the Clockwork Girl … 70
Peacock and Sister …. 73
Little Lesson on How to Be … 74
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.09.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | American Poets Continuum |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 155 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-942683-14-6 / 1942683146 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-942683-14-8 / 9781942683148 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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