Empty Clip

By Emilia Phillips

The poems of Empty Clip bore into the cultures of violence in the United States while candidly cross-firing upon the poets' complicity and testifying on these cultures' effects upon female body image and mental health.

From a meditation about a bullet hole-animated PowerPoint presentation on campus shooters to the startled invective against an unprovoked dick pic, lyrics brooding upon illness-driven suicidal thoughts to narratives about a slippery memory of childhood abuse, Emilia Phillips's third poetry collection sears with the "angry love" of self to find some truth that's nevertheless "a broken bone that can't be / set."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162922099X
• ISBN13: 9781629220994
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Akron Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"