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02486aam a2200361 i 4500 001 F42648AA01D311EEACDD33752EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230603010031 008 220829t20232023ilu e b 000 p eng 010 $a 2022040906 020 $a 0226826112 020 $a 9780226826110 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3607.E463 $b V39 2023 082 00 $a 811/.6 $2 23/eng/20220920 100 1 $a Gelman, Annelyse, $e author. 245 10 $a Vexations / $c Annelyse Gelman. 264 1 $a Chicago, IL : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 50 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Phoenix poets. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Viewed from a distance, interdisciplinary artist and poet Annelyse Gelman's Vexations could be described as a long poem-a book-length narrative work in the tradition of epic or romance. Vexations is fragmentary and dreamlike, however, chipping away over time at the very foundation on which such a narrative tradition typically rests. The central drama of Vexations is centered around the journey of a mother and her daughter through a speculative world that seems utterly contemporary and, at the same time, indexical of alternative unsettling futures. Threats and anxieties are inextricable here: environmental disaster, medical treatments, medication, motherhood, grasshoppers, horses, shopping malls, evolution, inheritance, advertising. "There was no other world to bring a child into," Gelman writes. Endlessly, intoxicatingly inventive, nearly every line of Vexations is worthy of independent attention, even as the work as a whole advances its tragic narrative on multiple fronts. As the work traverses scales from the dramatic scope of its quest narrative, on one hand, to the miniaturist phenomenological precision of its lyric progression on the other, Vexations balances affective intimacies with dystopian political vision, and the result is a singular, genre-warping work of contemporary poetry"-- $c Provided by publisher. 586 $a Academt of American Poets James Laughlin Award, 2022. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423828. 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft. 830 0 $a Phoenix poets. 941 $a 3 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20240402013520.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240104012111.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230603010148.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F42648AA01D311EEACDD33752EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search