A Slice from the Cake Made of Air

By Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Book Overview

a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love against a backdrop of contemporary culture--with all the sexualization that comes with race, gender, and landscape. From front to back the book is wound through with a single poem whose language is permuted, translated, and retranslated (from English to English) as it cycles around abortion, both asking "what artifact / do I resemble" and stating "small love / small / you failed it / in person." The poems directly confront the sexual self ("This isn't a real orgasm, a real patellar fatigue") and take up the thesis abstract as a malleable form for interrogating the inevitable intersections and overlaps of brains and bodies. Sexy and volatile, a slice from the cake made of air winds over and through itself, with no conclusions or solutions for the mess of living in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597093416
• ISBN13: 9781597093415
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.8"