Figure studies : poems / Claudia Emerson.
2008
PS3551.N4155 F54 2008
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Title
Figure studies : poems / Claudia Emerson.
Author
ISBN
9780807133606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807133604 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807133613 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807133612 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807133604 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807133613 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807133612 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
Description
xi, 65 p. ; 22 cm.
Exhibited
2009 Poets House Showcase
Call Number
PS3551.N4155 F54 2008
Summary
"Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called "All Girls School," offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. Whether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they collectively "school" - or refuse to - the poems explore ways girls are "trained" in the broadest sense of the word." ""Gossips," the second section, is a shorter sequence narrated by women as they talk about other women in a variety of isolations; these poems, told from the outside looking in, highlight a speculative voicing of all the gossips cannot know. In "Early Lessons," the third section, children narrate as they also observe similarly solitary women, the children's innocence allowing them to see in farther than the gossips can. The fourth section offers studies of women and men in situations where gender, with all of its complexities, figures powerfully."--BOOK JACKET.
Review
"Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called "All Girls School," offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. Whether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they collectively "school" - or refuse to - the poems explore ways girls are "trained" in the broadest sense of the word." ""Gossips," the second section, is a shorter sequence narrated by women as they talk about other women in a variety of isolations; these poems, told from the outside looking in, highlight a speculative voicing of all the gossips cannot know. In "Early Lessons," the third section, children narrate as they also observe similarly solitary women, the children's innocence allowing them to see in farther than the gossips can. The fourth section offers studies of women and men in situations where gender, with all of its complexities, figures powerfully."--BOOK JACKET.
Formatted Contents Note
The mannequin above Main Street Motors
I. ALL GIRLS SCHOOL. The physical plant
Headmaster
Housemother
Anatomical model
The girls dissect the eye of a cow
Latin teacher
Beginnig sculpture : The subtractive method
Warmbloods
What they are missing
Living Nativity
Organist
Communion Sunday buffet
The well : Egg and tongue
Upper Arcade
Biology lesson
Orchid anatomy
Influenza
Practice rooms
Physical education
Synchronized swimming
Environmental awareness : The right whale
History lesson
Esto Absoluta
Fire drill
Reunion weekend
II. GOSSIPS. Funny Valentine
Anorexic, farmers' market
Old proof
What they want
III. EARLY LESSONS. the polio vaccine, Chatham, Virginia
Cat lady
Piano fire
Elevator operator, Danville, Virginia
Finger of Mercury
IV. Tryptych. After the affair
Studio
The garden
Sewing bird
Photographer
At the Route One Flea Market
Womanless beauty pageant at the Volunteer Fire Department
Maintenance
Spring ice storm
Great Depression story
The medical Venus.
I. ALL GIRLS SCHOOL. The physical plant
Headmaster
Housemother
Anatomical model
The girls dissect the eye of a cow
Latin teacher
Beginnig sculpture : The subtractive method
Warmbloods
What they are missing
Living Nativity
Organist
Communion Sunday buffet
The well : Egg and tongue
Upper Arcade
Biology lesson
Orchid anatomy
Influenza
Practice rooms
Physical education
Synchronized swimming
Environmental awareness : The right whale
History lesson
Esto Absoluta
Fire drill
Reunion weekend
II. GOSSIPS. Funny Valentine
Anorexic, farmers' market
Old proof
What they want
III. EARLY LESSONS. the polio vaccine, Chatham, Virginia
Cat lady
Piano fire
Elevator operator, Danville, Virginia
Finger of Mercury
IV. Tryptych. After the affair
Studio
The garden
Sewing bird
Photographer
At the Route One Flea Market
Womanless beauty pageant at the Volunteer Fire Department
Maintenance
Spring ice storm
Great Depression story
The medical Venus.
Series
[Southern messenger poets]
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